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Neuropsychological Functioning in Euthymic Phase of Bipolar Affective Disorder

BACKGROUND: A substantial proportion of euthymic bipolar disorder patients have neuropsychological impairment which can have a significant impact on the overall functional recovery. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 60 bipolar disorder patients, currently in euthymic phase for the last 3 months with...

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Autores principales: Bhatia, Priyanka, Sidana, Ajeet, Das, Subhash, Bajaj, Manoj Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5968641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29875527
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_531_17
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author Bhatia, Priyanka
Sidana, Ajeet
Das, Subhash
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description BACKGROUND: A substantial proportion of euthymic bipolar disorder patients have neuropsychological impairment which can have a significant impact on the overall functional recovery. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 60 bipolar disorder patients, currently in euthymic phase for the last 3 months with minimum duration of illness 2 years and current Young Mania Rating Scale <7 and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale <6, currently on medications were administrated various neuropsychological tests. RESULTS: Approximately half of the patients have neuropsychological impairments in the areas of mental speed, sustained attention, verbal fluency, working memory, set shifting, verbal and visual memory, and visual-constructional ability. CONCLUSION: Findings of the current study provides evidence of neuropsychological impairment in euthymic bipolar disorder patients, and type of medications also has an impact on neuropsychological functions.
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spelling pubmed-59686412018-06-06 Neuropsychological Functioning in Euthymic Phase of Bipolar Affective Disorder Bhatia, Priyanka Sidana, Ajeet Das, Subhash Bajaj, Manoj Kumar Indian J Psychol Med Original Article BACKGROUND: A substantial proportion of euthymic bipolar disorder patients have neuropsychological impairment which can have a significant impact on the overall functional recovery. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 60 bipolar disorder patients, currently in euthymic phase for the last 3 months with minimum duration of illness 2 years and current Young Mania Rating Scale <7 and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale <6, currently on medications were administrated various neuropsychological tests. RESULTS: Approximately half of the patients have neuropsychological impairments in the areas of mental speed, sustained attention, verbal fluency, working memory, set shifting, verbal and visual memory, and visual-constructional ability. CONCLUSION: Findings of the current study provides evidence of neuropsychological impairment in euthymic bipolar disorder patients, and type of medications also has an impact on neuropsychological functions. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5968641/ /pubmed/29875527 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_531_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Psychiatric Society - South Zonal Branch http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_fullStr Neuropsychological Functioning in Euthymic Phase of Bipolar Affective Disorder
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title_short Neuropsychological Functioning in Euthymic Phase of Bipolar Affective Disorder
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5968641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29875527
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_531_17
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