PSY 442 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Psy, Neurocognitive, Bipolar Disorder
29 Jul 2020
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It is commonly accepted that mood disorders are accompanied by cognitive disorders, and studies in this area consistently corroborate this observation. Numerous investigations have been carried out in this regard, trying to objectify an alteration profile for unipolar depressive disorder and bipolar disorder, involving a large number of variables. Initially, the main conclusion of these is that patients who have a manic or depressive episode have a greater neurocognitive deficit than those who are in a euthymic phase. Likewise, those patients who are undergoing psychosis present a greater alteration, and as expected, a marked affectation of the abstraction function is observed ( 58). In unipolar depression (dup), neuropsychological studies have raised a profile of dysfunction that includes learning, attention and concentration disorders and, in some cases, alteration of executive functions ( 62 ).
