TY - JOUR ID - 131154 TI - Novel Approach to Mind Wandering in Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder Patients: Does the Direction of Thoughts Matter? JO - International Journal of Behavioral Sciences JA - IJBS LA - en SN - 2322-1194 AU - Rostami, Samira AU - Borjali, Ahmad AU - Eskandari, Hossein AU - Rostami, Reza AU - Northoff, Georg AD - Department of Psychology, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran AD - Department of Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran AD - Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics, Institute of Mental Health Research, The Royal Mental Health Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 15 IS - 1 SP - 66 EP - 72 KW - Keywords: Mind Wandering KW - Direction of Thoughts KW - Major depressive disorder KW - Bipolar Disorder KW - Internal Thoughts DO - 10.30491/ijbs.2021.250747.1383 N2 - AbstractIntroduction: This study investigated the features of mind wandering in patients with major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder in comparison with the healthy control group.Method: The number and duration of internally- and externally-oriented thoughts during MW in 90 healthy control, major depressive disorder, and depressed bipolar disorder subjects were measured by a novel method of experience sampling experiment in the laboratory at the Royal Mental Health Centre of the University of Ottawa, Canada using the MATLAB software. Subjects also filled out BDI-II to evaluate current depressive symptoms. The methods used to analyze data included Chi-square, ANOVA, LSD Post Hoc Test, Pearson and Spearman correlation.Results: 1) an increased number of internally-oriented thought contents in MDD and BD; 2) the duration of time MDD and BD groups engage with the internal thoughts is almost twice the time the HC spend on it; 3) the relationship between the direction of thoughts during MW and depressive symptoms.Conclusion: Our results show depressed patients with MDD and BD spend a longer time on internal thoughts during MW which is related to the severity of their depressive symptoms, which carries clinical implications for both diagnosis and therapy.  UR - https://www.behavsci.ir/article_131154.html L1 - https://www.behavsci.ir/article_131154_8f086a035f121a7b1e15d44121e44930.pdf ER -