Belief Updating in Euthymic Bipolar Disorder

Thirty-six bipolar patients completed the belief update task (Sharot et al., 2011) that estimates their ability to update beliefs in response to positive and negative information. The subsequent time in euthymia (i.e. free from any mood episode) has been recorded in months. We hypothesise that the learning pattern of bipolar patients and specifically their sensitivity to positive relative to negative information ("valence dependent learning") can predict the timing of their subsequent relapse.