Racing and Crowded Thoughts in Mood Disorders

University Hospital, Strasbourg, France

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Bipolar Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: questionary

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02036606

5582 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Racing thoughts relate to subjective acceleration of thinking which has been essentially associated with manic episodes in bipolar disorder. Qualitatively, the phenomenology of racing thoughts in major depression seems to differ from rumination and pure manic racing thoughts: thoughts of all kinds accumulate in the patient's head. Recent qualitative evidence is consistent with the existence of these two kinds of "thought overactivity" related to mood disorders. In order to evaluate this and better understand the psychopathological and cognitive mechanisms that underlie thought overactivity in mood disorders, we have created a 34-item self-questionnaire - the Racing and Crowded Thoughts Questionnaire (RCTQ) and a number of neuropsychological tasks (time perception, cognitive flexibility). Also, given the relationship between mood disorders and creativity, it is likely that thought overactivity is related to increased creativity. We aim at evaluating this relationship through the French version of the Cognitive Processes Associated with Creativity scale (CPAC).

Enrollment: 220 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Bipolar disorder or depressive disorder
• 18 -65 years old

Exclusion criteria

• neurological conditions or sequelae
• substance abuse in the last 10 months
• schizophrenia
• ADHD
• Borderline personality disorder
• Pregnant women- Subjects under legal supervision

Trial design

220 participants in 2 patient groups

mood disorders

Description:

Questionary and neuropsychological tasks will be administered

Treatment:

Behavioral: questionary

control

Description:

Questionary and neuropsychological tasks will be administered

Treatment:

Behavioral: questionary