Racing and crowded thoughts in mood disorders: a data-oriented theoretical reappraisal

G Bertschy, S Weibel, A Giersch, L Weiner - L'encephale, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives Speed of thought is a central phenomenon in mood disorders. We aimed to
provide an update on the topic ten years after a first narrative review published on racing …

Thought and language disturbance in bipolar disorder quantified via process-oriented verbal fluency measures

L Weiner, N Doignon-Camus, G Bertschy, A Giersch - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder (BD) is characterized by speech abnormalities, reflected by symptoms such
as pressure of speech in mania and poverty of speech in depression. Here we aimed at …

Beyond motor hyperactivity: Racing thoughts are an integral symptom of adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

E Martz, G Bertschy, C Kraemer, S Weibel, L Weiner - Psychiatry Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Adults with ADHD experience mental restlessness, akin to racing thoughts, but data on this
symptom in ADHD remain scarce. Our study aims at investigating self-reported racing …

Psychopathological dissection of bipolar disorder and ADHD: Focussing on racing thoughts and verbal fluency

G Bertschy, E Martz, S Weibel… - … Disease and Treatment, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the present study, we propose a review and a synthesis of the work of our group about the
phenomenology and the cognitive mechanisms of racing thoughts in bipolar disorder (BD) …

Racing thoughts revisited: a key dimension of activation in bipolar disorder

L Weiner, P Ossola, JB Causin, M Desseilles… - Journal of affective …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Racing and crowded thoughts are frequently reported respectively in manic and
mixed episodes of bipolar disorder (BD). However, questionnaires assessing this symptom …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating racing thoughts in insomnia: A neglected piece of the mood-sleep puzzle?

L Weiner, E Martz, Ü Kilic-Huck, N Siegel… - Comprehensive …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Cognitive arousal is thought to play a key role in insomnia disorder. However,
although patients frequently complain about racing thoughts appearing at bedtime, studies …

Unique and transdiagnostic symptoms of hypomania/mania and unipolar depression

K Stanton, S Khoo, D Watson, J Gruber… - Clinical …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Extensive research has been conducted to isolate features that distinguish bipolar spectrum
disorders from unipolar depression. Therefore, we identified latent symptom dimensions that …

Disentangling racing thoughts from mind wandering in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

E Martz, L Weiner, A Bonnefond, S Weibel - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Mental restlessness reported by adult with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD) has been mainly explained by excessive mind wandering. However, the …

Development and validation of a Disorganised Thoughts Scale: a new measure to assess thinking difficulties in the general population

S Love, L Kannis-Dymand, K Armstrong - BMC psychology, 2024 - Springer
Background Disordered thinking is a condition that can manifest in not only clinical cases
(eg, psychotic disorders), but also the wider general population. However, there is no current …

Spanish validation of the short version of the racing and crowded thoughts questionnaire (RCTQ-13)

DG Rodríguez, JP Zapata-Ospina, MM Uribe, D Suarez… - BMC psychiatry, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background The Racing and Crowded Thoughts Questionnaire (RCTQ-13) is the
most widely used specific scale for the measurement of racing thoughts, but there is …