Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale

Altman, Edward G.; Hedeker, Donald; Peterson, James L.; Davis, John M.

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“…All participants gave written informed consent and were screened with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI ; Beck et al 1961) and the Altman Mania Scale (AMS ; Altman et al 1997) by telephone one week prior to testing, as well as on the day of the mood induction procedure. (The short-form BDI was administered by phone and the long-form completed on the day of testing.…”

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A pilot study of positive mood induction in euthymic bipolar subjects compared with healthy controls

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Background. Demonstrating differences between euthymic bipolar subjects and healthy controls in response to positive (happy) mood induction may help elucidate how mania evolves. This pilot study evaluates the Go task in a reward paradigm as a method for inducing a happy mood state and compares the response of euthymic bipolar subjects and healthy controls.Method. The Sense of Hyperpositive Self Scale, the Tellegen positive and negative adjectives, the Global-Local task and a visual analogue scale for measuring positive affect were administered to 15 euthymic bipolar subjects and 19 age-and-sex-matched healthy control subjects before and after they had performed the Go task in a reward paradigm.Results. Significant differences were found between subjects and controls on several measures at each time-point but there were no differences across the groups across time except for the visual analogue scales, where subjects had a more sustained duration in self-reported happiness compared with controls.Conclusions. This pilot study has shown that a positive affect can be induced in bipolar subjects and controls which can be demonstrated by changes in scores on several tasks. However, only the visual analogue scales showed a significant difference between cases and controls over time. Such tests may prove valuable in furthering understanding about the evolution of manic mood states.

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A pilot study of positive mood induction in euthymic bipolar subjects compared with healthy controls

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“…Both the 20-item Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D; Radloff, 1977) and the five-item Self-Rating Mania Scale (SRM; Altman, Hedeker, Peterson, & Davis, 1997, 2001) have strong correlations with measures of symptoms as assessed by clinical interview. In this study, alpha was .75 for CES-D, and alpha for SRM was .71.…”

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Cognitive responses to failure and success relate uniquely to bipolar depression versus mania.

Eisner¹,

Johnson²,

Carver³

2008

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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This project examined cognitive responses to failure and success and their association with depression and mania within bipolar disorder. Many cognitive variables that are associated with unipolar depression have been found to be involved in bipolar disorder, more specifically bipolar depression. This research was the first to examine tendencies to hold high standards, engage in selfcriticism, and generalize from failure to an overall sense of self-worth. In Study 1, undergraduates were screened for risk of mood disorders and completed structured diagnostic interviews. History of bipolar spectrum disorders and history of depression had separate associations with negative generalization. The association of generalization with bipolar spectrum disorders was accounted for by current depressive symptoms. For Study 2, the authors developed a measure of the tendency to engage in positive generalization following success experiences. In a sample of 276 undergraduates, this measure related uniquely to risk for mania. Results of these 2 studies suggest that responses to failure are associated with a history of depression, whereas responses to success are associated with a risk for mania. Implications for future research and clinical work are discussed.Keywords bipolar disorder; mania; cognition; success; failure Bipolar disorder is one of the most severe of psychiatric disorders. Although it is well established that mood-stabilizing medications are helpful, rates of relapse (Judd et al., 2002) and suicide (Angst, Stassen, Clayton, & Angst, 2002;Mitchell, Slade, & Andrews, 2004) remain quite high even with best available medications (Keller et al., 1992). Given this, substantial effort has been directed toward developing psychosocial treatments that can be offered as adjuncts to medication treatment (Johnson & Leahy, 2003).At least three books have been published detailing cognitive therapy as intervention to supplement medications for bipolar disorder (Basco & Rush, 1996, 2005Lam, Jones, Bright, & Hayward, 1999;Newman, Leahy, Beck, & Reilly-Harrington, 2002). The results of cognitive therapy outcome trials in bipolar disorder have been mixed (Lam, Hayward, Watkins, Wright, & Sham, 2005;Scott et al., 2006), perhaps in part due to differences across samples. Regardless, as cognitive therapy becomes increasingly popular, it becomes important to document aspects of cognition that are disturbed among people with bipolar disorder. A better understanding of the cognitive variables involved in this disorder should help refine treatment approaches. Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological AssociationCorrespondence concerning this article should be addressed to Lori R. Eisner, Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124-0751. E-mail: leisner@psy.miami.edu. NIH Public AccessAuthor Manuscript J Abnorm Psychol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2010 January 29. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author ManuscriptMuch of the literature on cognition in bipolar disorder focus...

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“…Current symptoms of mania-Current symptoms of mania were assessed using the Altman Self-Rating Mania Index (ASRM; Altman, Hedeker, Peterson, & Davis, 1997), a fiveitem self-report inventory with scores ranging from 5 to 25. Scale items include rating the severity of the following five items in the past week, including heightened cheerfulness ("I feel happier or more cheerful than usual all of the time"), inflated self-confidence ("I feel more self-confident than usual all of the time"), reduced need for sleep ("I can go all day or night without any sleep and still not feel tired"), talkativeness ("I talk constantly and cannot be interrupted"), and excessive activity level ("I am constantly active or on the go all the time").…”

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Risk for mania and positive emotional responding: Too much of a good thing?

Gruber

Johnson

Oveis

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Although positive emotion research has begun to flourish, the extremes of positive emotion remain understudied. The present research used a multimethod approach to examine positive emotional disturbance by comparing participants at high and low risk for episodes of mania, which involves elevations in positive emotionality. Ninety participants were recruited into a high or low mania risk group according to responses on the Hypomanic Personality Scale. Participants' subjective, expressive, and physiological emotional responses were gathered while they watched two positive, two negative, and one neutral film clip. Results suggested that participants at high risk for mania reported elevated positive emotion and irritability and also exhibited elevated cardiac vagal tone across positive, negative, and neutral films. Discussion focuses on the implications these findings have for the diagnosis and prevention of bipolar disorder, as well as for the general study of positive emotion.

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Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale

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A pilot study of positive mood induction in euthymic bipolar subjects compared with healthy controls

A pilot study of positive mood induction in euthymic bipolar subjects compared with healthy controls

Cognitive responses to failure and success relate uniquely to bipolar depression versus mania.

Risk for mania and positive emotional responding: Too much of a good thing?

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