PSY 442 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Bipolar Disorder, Neurocognitive, Psy
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. 1 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. 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 (). Studies report that not all individuals are affected, that altered domains may be variable between patients, and that they may also fluctuate over time, such that cognitive dysfunction may persist even after depressive symptoms have ceased. In bipolar disorder (tb), a verbal memory compromise has been observed quite consistently.
