Jared W. Young

So even within 10 trials, what we refer to as each step is a trial, even within 10 trials, you'll actually gain more for going to lower awards and you'll lose more going for the higher awards.

So people go for the higher awards and then they start learning and they're like, oh, crap, I'm going to go for the lower, you know, and they switch to going for the lower awards generally.

People with bipolar disorder, on the other hand,

don't tend to do that.

They tend to be insensitive to punishment and really reduce sensitivity to the lower water.

So it's an attempt to try and get real world decision making to maximize outcomes for someone.

And so it's kind of gets at that and it's got high relevance.

It's correlated with suicidality.

So we use that because it has such relevance to real world decision making.

Yeah, so absolutely.

That's exactly what we found.

And so the healthy people were performing the task.

And if you look at the net difference, did they choose the safe side more?

And generally healthy people chose the safe side more.

Not all of them, but generally they did.

People that don't use cannabis, people that use cannabis that were healthy, they performed worse.

They ended up choosing the risky side more, statistically significantly worse.

And that's not surprising.

People have shown that before.

But if we switch to people with bipolar disorder, those that don't use cannabis had significantly worse performance, even in a euthymic