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Jiménez-López E, Villanueva-Romero CM, Sánchez-Morla EM, Martínez-Vizcaíno V, Ortiz M, Rodriguez-Jimenez R, Vieta E, Santos JL. Neurocognition, functional outcome, and quality of life in remitted and non-remitted schizophrenia: A comparison with euthymic bipolar I disorder and a control group. Schizophr Res 2022; 240:81-91. [PMID: 34991042 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2021.12.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2021] [Revised: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
There are discrepancies about if the severity of the symptomatology in schizophrenia is related to neurocognitive performance, functional outcome, and quality of life (QoL). Also, there are controversial data about the comparison between euthymic bipolar patients and different subgroups of schizophrenia in neurocognition, functioning, and QoL level. The present study aimed to compare the neurocognitive performance, functional outcome, and QoL of remitted and non-remitted patients with SC with respect to a group of euthymic patients with BD, and a control group. It included 655 subjects: 98 patients with schizophrenia in remission (SC-R), 184 non-remitted patients with schizophrenia (SC-NR), 117 euthymic patients with bipolar I disorder (BD), and 256 healthy subjects. A comprehensive clinical, neurocognitive (six cognitive domains), functional, and QoL assessment was carried out. Remission criteria of Andreasen were used to classify schizophrenia patients as remitted or non-remitted. Compared with control subjects all groups of patients showed impaired neurocognitive performance, functioning and QoL. SC-R patients had an intermediate functioning between control subjects and SC-NR, all at a neurocognitive, functional, or QoL level. There were no significant differences between SC-R and BD. These results suggest that reaching clinical remission is essential to achieve a better level of psychosocial functioning, and QoL. Likewise, the results of this study suggest that euthymic patients with bipolar disorder and patients with schizophrenia in remission are comparable at the neurocognitive and functional levels, which might have implications in the pathophysiology of both disorders.
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Affiliation(s)
- Estela Jiménez-López
- Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Virgen de La Luz, Cuenca, Spain; Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Health and Social Research Center, Cuenca, Spain; Neurobiological Research Group. Institute of Technology, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain; CIBERSAM (Biomedical Research Networking Centre in Mental Health), Spain
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- CIBERSAM (Biomedical Research Networking Centre in Mental Health), Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Hospital 12 de Octubre (imas12), Madrid, Spain; School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain; CogPsy-Group, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain.
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- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Health and Social Research Center, Cuenca, Spain; Universidad Autónoma de Chile. Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Talca, Chile
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, 1855 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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- CIBERSAM (Biomedical Research Networking Centre in Mental Health), Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Hospital 12 de Octubre (imas12), Madrid, Spain; School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain; CogPsy-Group, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain
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- CIBERSAM (Biomedical Research Networking Centre in Mental Health), Spain; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neuroscience, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Virgen de La Luz, Cuenca, Spain; Neurobiological Research Group. Institute of Technology, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain; CIBERSAM (Biomedical Research Networking Centre in Mental Health), Spain
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Lemvigh CK, Karantonis JA, Furlong LS, Carruthers SP, Pantelis C, Rossell SL, Van Rheenen TE. Characterization and interrelationships of theory of mind, socially competitive emotions and affective empathy in bipolar disorder. BRITISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY 2021; 61:76-92. [PMID: 34232514 DOI: 10.1111/bjc.12318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Revised: 06/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Evidence shows impaired theory of mind (ToM) in patients with bipolar disorder (BD), yet research examining its cognitive and affective components simultaneously is sparse. Moreover, recognition of socially competitive 'fortune of others' emotions (e.g. envy/gloat) may be related to ToM, but has not been assessed in BD. Finally, if and how ToM and 'fortune of others' emotions relate to affective empathy in BD is currently unclear. This study aimed to address these points. METHODS 64 BD patients and 34 healthy controls completed the Yoni task, a visual task assessing first- and second-order cognitive and affective ToM as well as 'fortune of others' emotions. The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire was used to assess self-reported affective empathy. RESULTS Patients with BD showed no deficits in cognitive and affective ToM or recognition of 'fortune of others' emotions. The ability to infer 'fortune of others' emotions correlated with several ToM measures, indicating that these functions are part of the same system. Patients with BD reported similar levels of affective empathy to healthy controls, and this was not related to ToM or 'fortune of others' emotions, suggesting that affective empathy represents a separate social domain. CONCLUSIONS These findings highlight areas of spared social functioning in BD, which may be utilized in therapeutic strategies. PRACTITIONER POINTS Our results suggest theory of mind and empathy may represent areas of potentially spared cognitive functioning in BD. As many BD patients have experienced adversity during developmental periods in which theory of mind and empathy develop, our findings suggest that these abilities may be markers of resilience in the disorder. Our findings are important for the formulation of therapeutic interventions for BD, which may include considering practical ways that a patients' knowledge of intact ToM and empathy could be utilized to reduce self-stigma and promote self-efficacy, improved well-being and functioning.
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- Cecilie K Lemvigh
- Center for Clinical Intervention and Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CINS) and Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CNSR), Mental Health Center Glostrup, Glostrup, Denmark.,Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Carlton, Victoria, Australia.,Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Centre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
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- Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Centre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Center for Clinical Intervention and Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CINS) and Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CNSR), Mental Health Center Glostrup, Glostrup, Denmark.,Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Carlton, Victoria, Australia.,Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Centre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Department of Psychiatry, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Carlton, Victoria, Australia.,Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Centre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Bendayan R, Mascio A, Stewart R, Roberts A, Dobson RJ. Cognitive Trajectories in Comorbid Dementia With Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder: The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Biomedical Research Centre (SLaM BRC) Case Register. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2021; 29:604-616. [PMID: 33250337 PMCID: PMC8169045 DOI: 10.1016/j.jagp.2020.10.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2020] [Revised: 10/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVES We aimed to compare trajectories of cognitive performance in individuals diagnosed with dementia with and without severe mental illness (SMI). DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING We used data from a large longitudinal mental healthcare case register, the Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS), at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) which provides mental health services to four south London boroughs. PARTICIPANTS Our sample (N = 4718) consisted of any individual who had a primary or secondary diagnosis of dementia from 2007 to 2018, was 50 years old or over at first diagnosis of dementia and had at least 3 recorded Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores. MEASUREMENTS Cognitive performance was measured using MMSE. Linear mixed models were fitted to explore whether MMSE trajectories differed between individuals with or without prior/current SMI diagnoses. Models were adjusted by socio-demographics, cardiovascular risk, smoking, and medication. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Our results showed differences in the rate of change, where individuals with comorbid SMI had a faster decline when compared with those that have dementia without comorbid SMI. However, this association was partially attenuated when adjusted by socio-demographics, smoking and cardiovascular risk factors; and more substantially attenuated when medication was included in models. Additional analyses showed that this accelerated decline might be more evident in individuals with bipolar disorders. Future research to detangle the potential biological underlying mechanisms of these associations is needed.
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- Rebecca Bendayan
- Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (RB, AM, AR, RJD), King's College London, London, United Kingdom; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (RB, AR, RJD), London, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (RB, AM, AR, RJD), King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (RB, AR, RJD), London, United Kingdom; Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (RS), King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (RB, AM, AR, RJD), King's College London, London, United Kingdom; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (RB, AR, RJD), London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (RB, AM, AR, RJD), King's College London, London, United Kingdom; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (RB, AR, RJD), London, United Kingdom; Institute of Health Informatics (RJD), University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Faurholt-Jepsen M, Miskowiak KW, Frost M, Christensen EM, Þórarinsdóttir H, Bardram JE, Vinberg M, Kessing LV. Patient-evaluated cognitive function measured with smartphones and the association with objective cognitive function, perceived stress, quality of life and function capacity in patients with bipolar disorder. Int J Bipolar Disord 2020; 8:31. [PMID: 33123812 PMCID: PMC7596112 DOI: 10.1186/s40345-020-00205-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2020] [Accepted: 09/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Cognitive impairments in patients with bipolar disorder (BD) have been associated with reduced functioning. Aims: To investigate the association between (1) patient-evaluated cognitive function measured daily using smartphones and stress, quality of life and functioning, respectively, and (2) patient-evaluated cognitive function and objectively measured cognitive function with neuropsychological tests. Methods Data from two randomized controlled trials were combined. Patients with BD (N = 117) and healthy controls (HC) (N = 40) evaluated their cognitive function daily for six to nine months using a smartphone. Patients completed the objective cognition screening tool, the Screen for Cognitive Impairment in Psychiatry and were rated with the Functional Assessment Short Test. Raters were blinded to smartphone data. Participants completed the Perceived Stress Scale and the WHO Quality of Life questionnaires. Data was collected at multiple time points per participant. p-values below 0.0023 were considered statistically significant. Results Patient-evaluated cognitive function was statistically significant associated with perceived stress, quality of life and functioning, respectively (all p-values < 0.0001). There was no association between patient-evaluated cognitive function and objectively measured cognitive function (B:0.0009, 95% CI 0.0017; 0.016, p = 0.015). Patients exhibited cognitive impairments in subjectively evaluated cognitive function in comparison with HC despite being in full or partly remission (B: − 0.36, 95% CI − 0.039; − 0.032, p < 0.0001). Conclusion The present association between patient-evaluated cognitive function on smartphones and perceived stress, quality of life and functional capacity suggests that smartphones can provide a valid tool to assess disability in remitted BD. Smartphone-based ratings of cognition could not provide insights into objective cognitive function.
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- Maria Faurholt-Jepsen
- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Center (CADIC), Psychiatric Center Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Center (CADIC), Psychiatric Center Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Monsenso Aps, Langelinie Alle 47, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Center (CADIC), Psychiatric Center Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Center (CADIC), Psychiatric Center Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Center (CADIC), Psychiatric Center Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Center (CADIC), Psychiatric Center Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Lewandowski KE, Cohen TR, Ongur D. Cognitive and clinical predictors of community functioning across the psychoses. Psych J 2020; 9:163-173. [PMID: 32208557 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2019] [Revised: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 02/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and related psychotic illnesses are common, serious mental disorders that are often associated with functional impairments and poor quality of life, even after clinical recovery. Cognitive dysfunction is a strong predictor of functional impairment; however, findings regarding relative impairments in functioning and cognition across diagnoses have been mixed, as have reports of the contribution of clinical symptoms and other illness features to functioning across diagnostic boundaries. We assessed 211 patients with psychotic disorders and 87 healthy controls using the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery, clinical measures of state mood and psychotic symptoms, and an interview measure of community functioning. Diagnostic groups were compared on MATRICS composite and domain scores, and clinical and functional measures. We then examined cognitive, clinical, and demographic predictors of community functioning using stepwise hierarchical linear regression. All three patient groups exhibited deficits in most cognitive domains relative to controls, and significantly poorer community functioning. While scores on most cognitive domains did not differ by diagnosis, when groups did differ patients with schizophrenia performed worse than patients with bipolar disorder. Cognition was correlated with functioning across the sample. The final regression model included negative symptoms, mania, social cognition, and processing speed, and explained 47% of the variance in community functioning scores across patient groups. Residual negative symptoms, residual mania, and social cognition significantly and independently predicted community functioning. These findings indicate that, while all cognitive domains are associated with community outcomes, when considered together and with clinical symptoms, negative symptoms, mania, and social cognition are the strongest predictors across diagnoses. Development of interventions targeting negative symptoms and social cognition may be effective in improving community functioning for patients across diagnoses.
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- Kathryn E Lewandowski
- Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Program, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Program, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
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- Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Program, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Bjornestad J, Hegelstad WTV, Berg H, Davidson L, Joa I, Johannessen JO, Melle I, Stain HJ, Pallesen S. Social Media and Social Functioning in Psychosis: A Systematic Review. J Med Internet Res 2019; 21:e13957. [PMID: 31254338 PMCID: PMC6625220 DOI: 10.2196/13957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2019] [Revised: 05/06/2019] [Accepted: 05/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Individuals with psychosis are heavy consumers of social media. It is unknown to what degree measures of social functioning include measures of online social activity. OBJECTIVE To examine the inclusion of social media activity in measures of social functioning in psychosis and ultrahigh risk (UHR) for psychosis. METHODS Two independent authors conducted a search using the following electronic databases: Epistemonikos, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, MEDLINE, Embase, and PsycINFO. The included articles were required to meet all of the following criteria: (1) an empirical study published in the English language in a peer-reviewed journal; (2) the study included a measure of objective or subjective offline (ie, non-Web-mediated contact) and/or online social functioning (ie, Web-mediated contact); (3) the social functioning measure had to be used in samples meeting criteria (ie, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or International Classification of Diseases) for a psychotic disorder or UHR for psychosis; and (4) the study was published between January 2004 and February 2019. Facebook was launched as the first large-scale social media platform in 2004 and, therefore, it is highly improbable that studies conducted prior to 2004 would have included measures of social media activity. RESULTS The electronic search resulted in 11,844 distinct articles. Full-text evaluation was conducted on 719 articles, of which 597 articles met inclusion criteria. A total of 58 social functioning measures were identified. With some exceptions, reports on reliability and validity were scarce, and only one measure integrated social media social activity. CONCLUSIONS The ecological validity of social functioning measures is challenged by the lack of assessment of social media activity, as it fails to reflect an important aspect of the current social reality of persons with psychosis. Measures should be revised to include social media activity and thus avoid the clinical consequences of inadequate assessment of social functioning. TRIAL REGISTRATION International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) CRD42017058514; http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?ID=CRD42017058514.
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- Jone Bjornestad
- Department of Social Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
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- Norsk Lærer Akademi, University College, Bergen, Norway
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- School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
- Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
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- Network for Clinical Research in Psychosis, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway
- Network for Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
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- Network for Clinical Research in Psychosis, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway
- Network for Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- School of Social and Health Sciences, Leeds Trinity University, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Jiménez-López E, Sánchez-Morla EM, López-Villarreal A, Aparicio AI, Martínez-Vizcaíno V, Vieta E, Rodriguez-Jimenez R, Santos JL. Neurocognition and functional outcome in patients with psychotic, non-psychotic bipolar I disorder, and schizophrenia. A five-year follow-up. Eur Psychiatry 2018; 56:60-68. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2018.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2018] [Revised: 11/18/2018] [Accepted: 11/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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AbstractBackground:Bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ) are characterized by neurocognitive and functional deficits with marked heterogeneity. It has been suggested that BD with a history of psychotic symptoms (BD-P) could constitute a phenotypically homogeneous subtype characterized by greater neurocognitive and functional impairments, or by a distinct trajectory of such deficits. The aim of this study was to compare the neurocognitive and functional course of euthymic BD-P, euthymic BD patients without a history of psychosis (BD-NP), stabilized patients with schizophrenia and healthy subjects, during a five-year follow-up.Methods:Neurocognitive and psychosocial function was examined in 100 euthymic patients with BD (50 BD-P, 50 BD-NP), 50 stabilized patients with schizophrenia (SZ), and 51 healthy controls (HC) at baseline (T1), and after a 5-year follow-up (T2).Results:The course of both neurocognitive performance and functional outcome of patients with SZ and BD (BD-P and BD-NP) is stable. The profile of neurocognitive impairment of patients with SZ or BD (BD-P and BD-NP), is similar, with only quantitative differences circumscribed to certain domains, such as working memory. The subgroup of patients with BD-NP does not show functional deterioration.Conclusions:We have not found evidence of progression in the neurocognitive or psychosocial impairment in any of the three groups of patients, although it cannot be dismissed the possibility of a subset of patients with a progressive course. Other longitudinal studies with larger samples and longer duration are necessary to confirm these findings.
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Jiménez-López E, Sánchez-Morla EM, Aparicio AI, López-Villarreal A, Martínez-Vizcaíno V, Rodriguez-Jimenez R, Vieta E, Santos JL. Psychosocial functioning in patients with psychotic and non-psychotic bipolar I disorder. A comparative study with individuals with schizophrenia. J Affect Disord 2018; 229:177-185. [PMID: 29316520 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2017.12.094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2017] [Revised: 11/21/2017] [Accepted: 12/31/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND More than 50% of individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) do not reach full psychosocial functioning, even during periods of euthymia. It has been suggested that history of psychotic symptoms is one of the factors which are associated with a worse functional outcome. The objective was to compare psychosocial functioning between patients with BD, with (BD-P), and without (BD-NP) a history of psychotic symptoms, and to examine whether the history of psychotic symptoms, or other clinical or neurocognitive variables predict psychosocial functioning. METHODS Psychosocial functioning and neurocognition were examined in 100 euthymic patients with bipolar I disorder (50 BD-P, and 50 BD-NP), compared to 50 stabilised patients with schizophrenia (SZ), and 51 healthy controls (HC). RESULTS 1) There were no differences between BD-P and BD-NP in the GAF-F score or in the FAST total score. 2) The two groups of patients with BD had better scores than SZ both in the GAF-F, and in all measures of the FAST, except for the subscale leisure time. 3) The neurocognitive composite index, verbal memory and subclinical depressive symptoms were the variables which explained a higher percentage of the variance of functional outcome. LIMITATIONS The cross-sectional design, and the relatively small sample size are the main limitations. CONCLUSIONS A history of psychotic symptoms has no relevant impact on the level of psychosocial functioning in BD. Neurocognitive dysfunction and subclinical depressive symptoms are the variables that best explain the functional impairment. These findings have important clinical implications.
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Affiliation(s)
- Estela Jiménez-López
- Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Virgen de La Luz, Cuenca, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Spain; Department of Psychiatry, Research Institute of Hospital 12 de Octubre (imas 12), Madrid, Spain; CogPsy-Group, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Virgen de La Luz, Cuenca, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Spain
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- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Health and Social Research Center, Cuenca, Spain; Universidad Autónoma de Chile. Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Talca, Chile
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Spain; Department of Psychiatry, Research Institute of Hospital 12 de Octubre (imas 12), Madrid, Spain; CogPsy-Group, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Spain; Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Virgen de La Luz, Cuenca, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Spain.
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Velthorst E, Fett AKJ, Reichenberg A, Perlman G, van Os J, Bromet EJ, Kotov R. The 20-Year Longitudinal Trajectories of Social Functioning in Individuals With Psychotic Disorders. Am J Psychiatry 2017; 174:1075-1085. [PMID: 27978770 PMCID: PMC5474222 DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.15111419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Social impairment is a long-recognized core feature of schizophrenia and is common in other psychotic disorders. Still, to date the long-term trajectories of social impairment in psychotic disorders have rarely been studied systematically. METHODS Data came from the Suffolk County Mental Health Project, a 20-year prospective study of first-admission patients with psychotic disorders. A never-psychotic comparison group was also assessed. Latent class growth analysis was applied to longitudinal data on social functioning from 485 respondents with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and psychotic mood disorders, and associations of the empirically derived trajectories with premorbid social adjustment, diagnosis, and 20-year outcomes were examined. RESULTS Four mostly stable trajectories of preserved (N=82; 59th percentile of comparison group sample distribution), moderately impaired (N=148; 17th percentile), severely impaired (N=181; 3rd percentile), and profoundly impaired (N=74; 1st percentile) functioning best described the 20-year course of social functioning across diagnoses. The outcome in the group with preserved functioning did not differ from that of never-psychotic individuals at 20 years, but the other groups functioned significantly worse. Differences among trajectories were already evident in childhood. The two most impaired trajectories started to diverge in early adolescence. Poorer social functioning trajectories were strongly associated with other real-world outcomes at 20 years. Multiple trajectories were represented within each disorder. However, more participants with schizophrenia spectrum disorders had impaired trajectories, and more with mood disorders had better functioning trajectories. CONCLUSIONS The results highlight substantial variability of social outcomes within diagnoses-albeit overall worse social outcomes in schizophrenia spectrum disorders-and show remarkably stable long-term impairments in social functioning after illness onset across all diagnoses.
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- Eva Velthorst
- Departments of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
NY, USA,Departments of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at
Mount Sinai, NY, USA,Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Educational Neuroscience & Research Institute
LEARN! Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, VU University, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands,Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology
and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Departments of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
NY, USA,Departments of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at
Mount Sinai, NY, USA,Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology
and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University, Putnam Hall-South
Campus, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology
and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School for Mental
Health and Neuroscience, EURON, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht,
the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University, Putnam Hall-South
Campus, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University, Putnam Hall-South
Campus, Stony Brook, New York
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Hawken ER, Harkness KL, Lazowski LK, Summers D, Khoja N, Gregory JG, Milev R. The manic phase of Bipolar disorder significantly impairs theory of mind decoding. Psychiatry Res 2016; 239:275-80. [PMID: 27039012 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.03.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2015] [Revised: 03/02/2016] [Accepted: 03/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Bipolar disorder is associated with significant deficits in the decoding of others' mental states in comparison to healthy participants. However, differences in theory of mind decoding ability among patients in manic, depressed, and euthymic phases of bipolar disorder is currently unknown. Fifty-nine patients with bipolar I or II disorder (13 manic, 25 depressed, 20 euthymic) completed the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Task (Eyes task) and the Animals Task developed to control for non-mentalistic response demands of the Eyes Task. Patients also completed self-report and clinician-rated measures of depression, mania, and anxiety symptoms. Patients in the manic phase were significantly less accurate than those in the depressed and euthymic phases at decoding mental states in the Eyes task, and this effect was strongest for eyes of a positive or neutral valence. Further Eyes task performance was negatively correlated with the symptoms of language/thought disorder, pressured speech, and disorganized thoughts and appearance. These effects held when controlling for accuracy on the Animals task, response times, and relevant demographic and clinical covariates. Results suggest that the state of mania, and particularly psychotic symptoms that may overlap with the schizophrenia spectrum, are most strongly related to social cognitive deficits in bipolar disorder.
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- Emily R Hawken
- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada; Centre for Neuroscience, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada; Centre for Neuroscience, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada; Centre for Neuroscience, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada; Centre for Neuroscience, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada.
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AIMS People with serious mental illness are increasingly turning to popular social media, including Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, to share their illness experiences or seek advice from others with similar health conditions. This emerging form of unsolicited communication among self-forming online communities of patients and individuals with diverse health concerns is referred to as peer-to-peer support. We offer a perspective on how online peer-to-peer connections among people with serious mental illness could advance efforts to promote mental and physical wellbeing in this group. METHODS In this commentary, we take the perspective that when an individual with serious mental illness decides to connect with similar others online it represents a critical point in their illness experience. We propose a conceptual model to illustrate how online peer-to-peer connections may afford opportunities for individuals with serious mental illness to challenge stigma, increase consumer activation and access online interventions for mental and physical wellbeing. RESULTS People with serious mental illness report benefits from interacting with peers online from greater social connectedness, feelings of group belonging and by sharing personal stories and strategies for coping with day-to-day challenges of living with a mental illness. Within online communities, individuals with serious mental illness could challenge stigma through personal empowerment and providing hope. By learning from peers online, these individuals may gain insight about important health care decisions, which could promote mental health care seeking behaviours. These individuals could also access interventions for mental and physical wellbeing delivered through social media that could incorporate mutual support between peers, help promote treatment engagement and reach a wider demographic. Unforeseen risks may include exposure to misleading information, facing hostile or derogatory comments from others, or feeling more uncertain about one's health condition. However, given the evidence to date, the benefits of online peer-to-peer support appear to outweigh the potential risks. CONCLUSION Future research must explore these opportunities to support and empower people with serious mental illness through online peer networks while carefully considering potential risks that may arise from online peer-to-peer interactions. Efforts will also need to address methodological challenges in the form of evaluating interventions delivered through social media and collecting objective mental and physical health outcome measures online. A key challenge will be to determine whether skills learned from peers in online networks translate into tangible and meaningful improvements in recovery, employment, or mental and physical wellbeing in the offline world.
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Kuswanto C, Chin R, Sum MY, Sengupta S, Fagiolini A, McIntyre RS, Vieta E, Sim K. Shared and divergent neurocognitive impairments in adult patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Whither the evidence? Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2016; 61:66-89. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2015] [Revised: 12/02/2015] [Accepted: 12/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Sum MY, Ho NF, Sim K. Cross diagnostic comparisons of quality of life deficits in remitted and unremitted patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Schizophr Res 2015; 168:191-6. [PMID: 26341581 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2015.08.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2015] [Revised: 08/19/2015] [Accepted: 08/21/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) have been found to report lower quality of life (QOL) compared to healthy controls separately. However, data are wanting on cross diagnostic comparisons of QOL within psychotic spectrum conditions. This study examined QOL differences and clinical predictors between schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD). Based on extant data, we hypothesized that patients with remitted SCZ and BD had comparable QOL levels, and that more severe symptoms and poorer psychosocial functioning predicted poorer QOL in our patients. METHODS Two hundred and twenty-two sex and age-matched subjects (44 BD, 122 SCZ, 56 healthy controls) were assessed on their QOL, psychosocial functioning, symptomatology, and state of remission. RESULTS Overall, SCZ patients had worse QOL in the environment domain (p=0.008) and overall QOL (p=0.007) compared with BD patients. Both patient groups in remission had similar QOL, while unremitted SCZ patients reported poorer QOL in all domains compared to unremitted BD patients (p<0.01). Within patients, greater severity of negative symptoms and poorer psychosocial functioning were associated with poorer QOL (p<0.05). DISCUSSION Remission status affected QOL in both patient groups. The association of worse QOL with greater negative psychotic psychopathology and poorer psychosocial functioning highlighted potential clinical markers of QOL, which can aid in the management of psychotic spectrum disorders.
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- Min Yi Sum
- Research Division, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore
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- Research Division, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore
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- Research Division, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore; Department of General Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore.
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Baş TÖ, Poyraz CA, Baş A, Poyraz BÇ, Tosun M. The impact of cognitive impairment, neurological soft signs and subdepressive symptoms on functional outcome in bipolar disorder. J Affect Disord 2015; 174:336-41. [PMID: 25545601 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2014.12.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2014] [Revised: 12/06/2014] [Accepted: 12/06/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Cognitive impairments and subsyndromal depressive symptoms are present during euthymic periods of bipolar disorder (BD). Most studies have determined that cognitive impairments and residual depressive symptoms have major impacts on psychosocial functioning. The aim of the present study was to identify the major factor responsible for low psychosocial functioning in a subgroup of patients with BD despite clinical recovery. METHODS Sixty patients with bipolar I disorder and 41 healthy subjects were enrolled in this study. Cognitive performance, neurological soft signs (NSSs), psychosocial functioning, residual mood symptoms and illness characteristics were assessed. Using the median value of the Functioning Assessment Short Test (FAST) as the cut-off point, the patients were divided into two groups, high- (n=29) or low-functioning (n=31), and they were compared based on total NSS, residual depressive symptoms, cognitive performance and clinical variables. RESULTS Performances on the verbal memory tests and social functioning were significantly worse in the euthymic patients with BD. Increased rates of NSS were identified in the patients compared with the normal controls. The low-functioning patients performed significantly worse on verbal memory, and their NSS and residual depressive symptoms were significantly higher compared to high-functioning patients. In the regression analysis, subsyndromal depressive symptoms and verbal learning measures were identified as the best predictors of psychosocial functioning. LIMITATIONS The patients were artificially separated into two groups based on a FAST score cut-off. CONCLUSIONS In this study, residual depressive symptoms and verbal memory impairments were the most prominent factors associated with the level of functioning.
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- Tuba Öcek Baş
- Bakırköy Dr. Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Pinfold V, Sweet D, Porter I, Quinn C, Byng R, Griffiths C, Billsborough J, Enki DG, Chandler R, Webber M, Larsen J, Carpenter J, Huxley P. Improving community health networks for people with severe mental illness: a case study investigation. HEALTH SERVICES AND DELIVERY RESEARCH 2015. [DOI: 10.3310/hsdr03050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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IntroductionPolicy drivers in mental health to address personal recovery, stigma and poor physical health indicate that new service solutions are required. This study aimed to understand how connections to people, places and activities were utilised by individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) to benefit health and wellbeing.MethodsA five-module mixed-methods design was undertaken in two study sites. Data were collected from 150 network-mapping interviews and 41 in-depth follow-up interviews with people with SMI; in-depth interviews with 30 organisation stakeholders and 12 organisation leaders; and 44 telephone interviews with practitioners. We undertook a three-stage synthesis process including independent lived experience feedback, and a patient and public involvement team participated in tool design, data collection, analysis and write-up.ResultsThree personal network types were found in our study using the community health network approach: diverse and active; family and stable; formal and sparse. Controlled for other factors we found only four variables significantly associated with which network type a participant had: living alone or not; housing status; formal education; long-term sickness or disability. Diagnosis was not a factor. These variables are challenging to address but they do point to potential for network change. The qualitative interviews with people with SMI provided further understanding of connection-building and resource utilisation. We explored individual agency across each network type, and identified recognition of the importance and value of social support and active connection management alongside the risks of isolation, even for those most affected by mental illness. We identified tensions in personal networks, be that relationships with practitioners or families, dealing with the impact of stigma, or frustrations of not being in employment, which all impact on network resources and well-being. The value of connectedness within personal networks of people, place and activity for supporting recovery was evident in shaping identity, providing meaning to life and sense of belonging, gaining access to new resources, structuring routines and helping individuals ‘move on’ in their recovery journey.Health-care practitioners recognised that social factors were important in recovery but reported system-level barriers (workload, administrative bureaucracy, limited contact time with clients) in addressing these issues fully. Even practitioners working in third-sector services whose remit involved increasing clients’ social connection faced restrictions due to being evaluated by outcome criteria that limited holistic recovery-focused practices. Service providers were keen to promote recovery-focused approaches. We found contrasts between recovery ideology within mental health policy and recovery practice on the ground. In particular, the social aspects of supporting people with SMI are often underprioritised in the health-care system. In a demanding and changing context, strategic multiagency working was seen as crucial but we found few examples of embedded multisector organisation partnerships.ConclusionWhile our exploratory study has limitations, findings suggest potential for people with SMI to be supported to become more active managers of their personal networks to support well-being regardless of current network type. The health and social care system does not currently deliver multiagency integrated solutions to support SMI and social recovery.FundingThe National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research programme.
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- Primary Care Group, Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK
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- Primary Care Group, Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK
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- Primary Care Group, Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK
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- Primary Care Group, Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK
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- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, West Sussex, UK
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- International Centre for Mental Health Social Research, University of York, York, UK
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- Department of Social Work and Applied Social Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Centre for Social Work and Social Care Research, University of Swansea, Swansea, UK
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Tsitsipa E, Fountoulakis KN. The neurocognitive functioning in bipolar disorder: a systematic review of data. Ann Gen Psychiatry 2015; 14:42. [PMID: 26628905 PMCID: PMC4666163 DOI: 10.1186/s12991-015-0081-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2015] [Accepted: 11/18/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND During the last decades, there have been many different opinions concerning the neurocognitive function in Bipolar disorder (BD). The aim of the current study was to perform a systematic review of the literature and to synthesize the data in a comprehensive picture of the neurocognitive dysfunction in BD. METHODS Papers were located with searches in PubMed/MEDLINE, through June 1st 2015. The review followed a modified version of the recommendations of the Preferred Items for Reporting of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement. RESULTS The initial search returned 110,403 papers. After the deletion of duplicates, 11,771 papers remained for further evaluation. Eventually, 250 were included in the analysis. CONCLUSION The current review supports the presence of a neurocognitive deficit in BD, in almost all neurocognitive domains. This deficit is qualitative similar to that observed in schizophrenia but it is less severe. There are no differences between BD subtypes. Its origin is unclear. It seems it is an enduring component and represents a core primary characteristic of the illness, rather than being secondary to the mood state or medication. This core deficit is confounded (either increased or attenuated) by the disease phase, specific personal characteristics of the patients (age, gender, education, etc.), current symptomatology and its treatment (especially psychotic features) and long-term course and long-term exposure to medication, psychiatric and somatic comorbidity and alcohol and/or substance abuse.
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- Division of Neurosciences, 3rd Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 6, Odysseos street (1st Parodos, Ampelonon str.) 55536 Pournari Pylaia, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Muralidharan A, Kotwicki RJ, Cowperthwait C, Craighead WE. Parental relationships and behavioral approach system dysregulation in young adults with bipolar disorder. J Clin Psychol 2014; 71:387-401. [PMID: 25534712 DOI: 10.1002/jclp.22146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Expressed emotion (EE), or the presence of criticism/hostility/emotional overinvolvement in a family relationship, predicts poorer outcomes in bipolar disorder; however, the mechanism of this is unclear. The present study investigated whether, in a sample of young adults (aged 18-40 years) with bipolar disorder, parental criticism was associated with Behavioral Approach System (BAS) dysregulation, including emotional reactivity to negative feedback and cognitive schemas of self-criticism/perfectionism. METHOD Twenty-two young adults with bipolar I disorder and 22 matched control participants completed an interview, questionnaires, and a computer-based task with false negative feedback; emotional reactivity to this feedback was assessed. RESULTS Compared to control participants, clinical participants exhibited higher levels (p = 0.001) of self-criticism, and a trend towards a greater decrease in positive affect after negative feedback (p = 0.053), even when controlling for mood symptoms. Among clinical participants, perceived criticism from paternal caregivers was associated with self-criticism and perfectionism, and low perceived paternal care was associated with decrease in positive affect. CONCLUSION Strain in parental relationships may be associated with BAS dysregulation for individuals with bipolar disorder.
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Yalcin-Siedentopf N, Hoertnagl CM, Biedermann F, Baumgartner S, Deisenhammer EA, Hausmann A, Kaufmann A, Kemmler G, Mühlbacher M, Rauch AS, Fleischhacker WW, Hofer A. Facial affect recognition in symptomatically remitted patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Schizophr Res 2014; 152:440-5. [PMID: 24361305 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2013.11.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2013] [Revised: 11/05/2013] [Accepted: 11/12/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) have consistently been associated with deficits in facial affect recognition (FAR). These impairments have been related to various aspects of social competence and functioning and are relatively stable over time. However, individuals in remission may outperform patients experiencing an acute phase of the disorders. The present study directly contrasted FAR in symptomatically remitted patients with schizophrenia or BD and healthy volunteers and investigated its relationship with patients' outcomes. Compared to healthy control subjects, schizophrenia patients were impaired in the recognition of angry, disgusted, sad and happy facial expressions, while BD patients showed deficits only in the recognition of disgusted and happy facial expressions. When directly comparing the two patient groups individuals suffering from BD outperformed those with schizophrenia in the recognition of expressions depicting anger. There was no significant association between affect recognition abilities and symptomatic or psychosocial outcomes in schizophrenia patients. Among BD patients, relatively higher depression scores were associated with impairments in both the identification of happy faces and psychosocial functioning. Overall, our findings indicate that during periods of symptomatic remission the recognition of facial affect may be less impaired in patients with BD than in those suffering from schizophrenia. However, in the psychosocial context BD patients seem to be more sensitive to residual symptomatology.
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- Nursen Yalcin-Siedentopf
- Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Biological Psychiatry Division, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, General and Social Psychiatry Division, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Biological Psychiatry Division, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Biological Psychiatry Division, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, General and Social Psychiatry Division, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, General and Social Psychiatry Division, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Biological Psychiatry Division, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, General and Social Psychiatry Division, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Private Medical University Salzburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ignaz Harrerstrasse 79, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
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- Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Biological Psychiatry Division, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Biological Psychiatry Division, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria; Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, General and Social Psychiatry Division, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Biological Psychiatry Division, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Hoertnagl CM, Oberheinricher S, Hofer A. [Social cognition in patients with mood disorders. Part II: bipolar disorder : a selective review of the literature]. NEUROPSYCHIATRIE : KLINIK, DIAGNOSTIK, THERAPIE UND REHABILITATION : ORGAN DER GESELLSCHAFT OSTERREICHISCHER NERVENARZTE UND PSYCHIATER 2014; 28:84-91. [PMID: 24477359 DOI: 10.1007/s40211-013-0096-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2013] [Accepted: 12/31/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Overview on the current knowledge regarding social cognition in patients with bipolar disorder. METHODS Selective literature research on deficits in social cognition intrinsic to bipolar disorder, their occurrence and effects. RESULTS Deficits in social cognition are considered to be core features of bipolar disorder. They are apparent during acute episodes of the disorder, endure when patients are in remission and have a significant negative impact on the patients' psychosocial outcomes. CONCLUSIONS It is important to consider deficits in social cognition as an integral part of a treatment approach to achieve mental stabilization in patients with bipolar disorder.
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- Christine Maria Hoertnagl
- Department für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Univ.-Klinik für Allgemeine Psychiatrie und Sozialpsychiatrie, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020, Innsbruck, Österreich,
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Mercer L, Becerra R. A unique emotional processing profile of euthymic bipolar disorder? A critical review. J Affect Disord 2013; 146:295-309. [PMID: 23218848 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2012.10.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2012] [Revised: 10/24/2012] [Accepted: 10/24/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To undertake a critical review of the literature on emotional processing (EP) in bipolar patients in remission. This literature review focuses on a number of dimensions of EP including facial emotion recognition, emotional memory, affective theory of mind (ToM), affective attention and affective auditory information processing. METHODS A systematic search was conducted through PsychINFO and Medline databases to obtain relevant literature. Studies that include behavioural measures of EP were included. RESULTS The findings from this review demonstrate that bipolar disorder (BD) patients continue to exhibit some EP deficits during euthymic phases. A number of factors believed to contribute to such findings have been highlighted. CONCLUSIONS This review has shed light on some of the conflicting findings reported in the literature and thus offers a more comprehensive profile of euthymic bipolar patients' EP abilities. This information could enrich clinicians' therapeutic efforts to minimise relapse by attending to euthymic bipolar patients' specific emotional processing difficulties.
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- L Mercer
- Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Barrera A, Vázquez G, Tannenhaus L, Lolich M, Herbst L. Theory of mind and functionality in bipolar patients with symptomatic remission. REVISTA DE PSIQUIATRIA Y SALUD MENTAL 2012; 6:67-74. [PMID: 23084796 DOI: 10.1016/j.rpsm.2012.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2012] [Revised: 07/17/2012] [Accepted: 07/23/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Functional deficits are commonly observed in bipolar disorder after symptomatic remission. Social cognition deficits have also been reported, which could contribute to dysfunction in patients with bipolar disorder in remission. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twelve bipolar disorder patients in symptomatic remission (7 patients with bipolar disorder type I and 5 with bipolar disorder type II) and 12 healthy controls completed the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test and the Faux Pas Test to evaluate theory of mind (ToM). Both groups also completed the Functional Assessment Short Test (FAST). RESULTS The performance of the bipolar patients in the cognitive component of ToM was below normal, although the difference between the control group was not statistically significant (P=.078), with a trend to a worse performance associated with a higher number of depressive episodes (P=.082). There were no statistically significant differences between groups for the emotional component of ToM. Global functionality was significantly lower in bipolar patients compared to the control group (P=.001). Significant differences were also observed between both groups in five of the six dimensions of functionality assessed. No significant correlation was found between functionality and theory of mind. CONCLUSIONS Bipolar patients in symptomatic remission exhibit impairments in several areas of functioning. Cognitive ToM appears more affected than emotional ToM. Deficits in ToM were not related to functional impairment.
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- Angeles Barrera
- Centro de Investigación en Neurociencias y Neuropsicología Clínica, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Svendsen AM, Kessing LV, Munkholm K, Vinberg M, Miskowiak KW. Is there an association between subjective and objective measures of cognitive function in patients with affective disorders? Nord J Psychiatry 2012; 66:248-53. [PMID: 22070515 DOI: 10.3109/08039488.2011.626870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Patients with affective disorders experience cognitive dysfunction in addition to their affective symptoms. The relationship between subjectively experienced and objectively measured cognitive function is controversial with several studies reporting no correlation between subjective and objective deficits. AIMS To investigate whether there is a correlation between subjectively reported and objectively measured cognitive function in patients with affective disorders, and whether subjective complaints predict objectively measured dysfunction. METHODS The study included 45 participants; 15 with bipolar disorder (BD), 15 with unipolar disorder (UD) and 15 healthy individuals. Participants' subjectively experienced cognitive function and objective cognitive function were assessed with the Massachusetts General Hospital Cognitive and Physical Functioning Questionnaire (CPFQ) and the Screen for Cognitive Impairment in Psychiatry (SCIP), respectively. Patients were rated for affective symptoms with Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) and Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS). RESULTS Patients demonstrated subjective and objective cognitive dysfunction relative to controls (P-values ≤ 0.01) but there were no differences between patient groups (P > 0.1). We found no correlation between subjectively experienced and objectively measured cognitive dysfunction in BD (P = 0.7), and a non-significant trend towards a correlation in UD (P = 0.06), which disappeared when controlling for gender (P = 0.1). CONCLUSION Our results suggest that it is not necessarily patients who have cognitive complaints that are most impaired. If confirmed in a larger sample, our findings suggest that neuropsychological assessment is warranted to elucidate the potential role of cognitive dysfunction in patients' everyday lives and to inform treatment strategies targeting these difficulties.
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- Anne M Svendsen
- Department of Psychiatry, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Ezquiaga E, García-López A, Montes JM, Alegría A, de Dios C, Balanzá V, Sierra P, Perez J, Toledo F, Rodriguez A. [Variables associated with disability in elderly bipolar patients on ambulatory treatment]. REVISTA DE PSIQUIATRIA Y SALUD MENTAL 2012; 5:183-90. [PMID: 22854613 DOI: 10.1016/j.rpsm.2011.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2010] [Revised: 04/17/2011] [Accepted: 04/19/2011] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Studies on adult bipolar patients have demonstrated a disability associated with the bipolar disorder, even in euthymic patients, but there is a lack of data in the elderly population. MATERIAL AND METHOD A cross-sectional, multicentre study on a consecutive sample of ambulatory bipolar patients (DSM-IV-TR criteria), aged 65 years or over. Retrospective and cross-sectional sociodemographic and clinical data were collected, as well as the Clinical Global Impression for Bipolar Modified scale (CGI-BP-M) and the level of disability using the World Health Organisation Disability Assessment Schedule (WHO/DAS). The disability was assessed globally and by areas. The presence of a moderate to maximum disability compared to a mild to no disability was considered a dependent variable. RESULTS A moderate to maximum global disability was present in 43.6% of the sample. By areas, occupational functioning was the area most frequently affected, and personal care the least affected. The only variables which were associated with disability were the presence of medical comorbidity (P = .01), increased age (P = .005) global clinical severity (P = .0001) and in the depressive pole (P = .03). There was no relationship between clinical subtype, duration of the disease, number of previous episodes, number of hospitalisations, or other clinical variables and the degree of disability. CONCLUSIONS These data underline the need to establish specific therapeutic strategies in the approach to depressive symptoms and medical comorbidity, with the aim of minimising the disability in elderly bipolar patients. Given the lack of current data, new studies are needed with larger samples and control groups.
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- Elena Ezquiaga
- Servicio de Psiquiatría, Hospital Universitario La Princesa, Madrid, España.
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Dalum HS, Korsbek L, Mikkelsen JH, Thomsen K, Kistrup K, Olander M, Hansen JL, Nordentoft M, Eplov LF. Illness management and recovery (IMR) in Danish community mental health centres. Trials 2011; 12:195. [PMID: 21849024 PMCID: PMC3179718 DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2011] [Accepted: 08/17/2011] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Background Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are severe mental illnesses that can have a significant disabling impact on the lives of people. Psychosocial interventions that stress hope and recovery as a part of a multi-dimensional approach are possibly indicated to support people with severe mental illness in facilitating recovery. Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) is a curriculum-based psychosocial intervention designed as structured program with a recovery-oriented approach. The aim of IMR is to rehabilitate people with severe mental illnesses by helping them acquire knowledge and skills in managing their illness and achieve personal recovery goals. Previous randomised clinical trials indicate that IMR can be implemented with a good effect and a high fidelity though further trials are crucial to demonstrate the potential effectiveness of IMR. Methods/Design The trial design is a randomised, assessor-blinded, multi-centre, clinical trial of the IMR program compared with treatment as usual for 200 participants diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder under the care of two community mental health centres in the Capital Region of Denmark. The primary outcome is level of functioning at the end of treatment. The secondary outcomes are disease symptoms; use of alcohol/drugs; individual meaning of recovery; hope; hospital admissions and out-patient psychiatric treatment at the end of treatment and the abovementioned and level of functioning at follow-up 21 months after baseline. Discussion If the results of this trial show IMR to be effective these positive results will strengthen the evidence of IMR as an effective comprehensive psychosocial intervention with a recovery-oriented approach for people with severe mental illness. This will have significant implications for the treatment and recovery of people with severe mental illness. Trial registration Registration number NCT01361698.
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- Helle Stentoft Dalum
- Competence Center Rehabilitation, Recovery & Shared Care, Mental Health Centre Ballerup, Ballerup Boulevard 2, 2750 Ballerup, Denmark.
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Psychosocial function in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Relationship to neurocognition and clinical symptoms. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 2010; 16:771-83. [PMID: 20509984 DOI: 10.1017/s1355617710000573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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In line with a dimensional approach to psychopathology, we examined whether psychosocial function and its relationship to neurocognition and clinical symptoms differ across schizophrenia and bipolar disorder subgroups with and without a history of affective or psychotic episodes. From the TOP study, a heterogeneous sample of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders without (n = 60) and with a history of affective episodes (n = 54); individuals with bipolar spectrum disorders with (n = 64) and without a history of psychosis (n = 56) and healthy controls (n = 268) participated. Psychosocial functioning was measured with the Social Functioning Scale (self-rated) and the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (clinician-rated), neurocognition with a comprehensive neuropsychological test battery, and symptoms with Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology, Young Mania Rating Scale, and Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale. Clinician-rated functioning was poorer in schizophrenia groups than in bipolar groups, but self-rated functioning was similar across all clinical groups and poorer than in controls. Neurocognition and current clinical symptoms were associated with psychosocial function in bivariate analyses, but current symptoms had a greater independent contribution to functioning than neurocognition across clinical groups in multivariate analyses. Despite differences in neurocognition and psychosocial function, groups showed the same pattern in prediction of functioning irrespective of DSM-IV or clinical definition.
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Waford RN, Lewine R. Is perseveration uniquely characteristic of schizophrenia? Schizophr Res 2010; 118:128-33. [PMID: 20202795 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2010.01.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2009] [Revised: 01/21/2010] [Accepted: 01/29/2010] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Evidence for the existence of categorically distinct disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression is mixed: neuropsychological impairments may be similar in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder; schizophrenia and major depression show similar neuropsychological and frontal lobe disturbances; and overlap in biochemical anomalies among the disorders has also been reported. Interestingly, there are very few studies that directly compare all diagnoses. The present study compares cognitive perseveration in these three diagnostic groups using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST) to examine performance across patients with schizophrenia (n=143), bipolar disorder (n=25) and major depression (n=21). Individuals used in this sample were 18-45 years old at time of testing to eliminate confounds of aging. Sex ratios within each diagnostic group are comparable to those of the national population. Univariate analyses examining diagnostic group and percent perseverative error revealed no significant differences in WCST performance across the diagnostic groups. Examination of clinical variables in the sample of individuals with schizophrenia revealed that perseveration is related to negative symptoms and depressive symptoms in young adults.
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- Rachel N Waford
- University of Louisville, 1st Street and Cardinal Boulevard, Life Sciences Building, Rm 317B, Louisville, KY 40204, USA.
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Gogos A, Joshua N, Rossell SL. Use of the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) to investigate group and gender differences in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2010; 44:220-9. [PMID: 20050718 DOI: 10.3109/00048670903446882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Gender differences exist in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD), therefore the aim of the present study was to clarify the role of gender in cognitive deficits in these disorders. METHODS Cognitive performance was examined in schizophrenia (24M : 14F) and BD (16M : 24F) patients compared with age-, IQ- and gender-matched control participants (21M : 22F). The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) was used to assess five cognitive domains: immediate memory/learning, visuospatial ability, language, attention, and delayed memory, which are summed to provide a Total score. RESULTS In comparison to controls, schizophrenia patients showed deficits on all domains, while BD patients had impaired immediate memory/learning, language and Total score. Schizophrenia patients showed deficits compared to BD in the Total score, immediate and delayed memory and visuospatial ability. The Total and domain scores were not different in men and women across or within groups. There were gender effects on four of the 12 individual cognitive tasks, in which female patients outperformed male patients. Further, there were gender differences across groups for three of the individual tasks: female schizophrenia patients showed poorer story memory and story recall compared to male schizophrenia patients; female BD patients had enhanced figure copy performance compared to male BD patients. CONCLUSIONS The RBANS highlighted the cognitive deficits in schizophrenia and BD patients compared to controls and also each other. There were no overall gender differences in cognition.
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- Andrea Gogos
- Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, Level 2, 161 Barry Street, Carlton South, Vic. 3053, Australia.
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Kim E, Jung YC, Ku J, Kim JJ, Lee H, Kim SY, Kim SI, Cho HS. Reduced activation in the mirror neuron system during a virtual social cognition task in euthymic bipolar disorder. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2009; 33:1409-16. [PMID: 19632283 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2009.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2009] [Revised: 07/06/2009] [Accepted: 07/18/2009] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Social cognition entails both cognitive and affective processing, and impairments in both have accounted for residual symptoms of bipolar disorder (BD). However, there has been a lack of studies identifying neural substrates responsible for social cognitive difficulties in BD patients. Fourteen euthymic BD patients and 14 healthy normal controls underwent functional MRI while performing a virtual reality social cognition task, which incorporated both cognitive and emotional dimensions, simulating real-world social situations. During the scanning, subjects tried to guess (attribute) possible reasons for expressed emotion of virtual humans (avatars) while viewing their facial expressions, just after observing their verbal and nonverbal (facial) expressions which were emotionally valenced (happy, angry and neutral). BD patients compared to normal controls showed delayed reaction times in emotional conditions, with comparable response accuracy. Healthy normal controls activated the right anterior cingulate cortex, inferior frontal, and insular cortex in emotional conditions contrasted with neutral control conditions, that is, the regions that have been related to empathic processes during viewing others' emotional expression. Relative to normal controls, BD patients showed reduced activations in the 'mirror neuron system', including the right inferior frontal cortex, premotor cortex, and insula, mainly in angry or happy condition. These results may suggest that, even during euthymic state, BD patients have difficulties in recruiting brain regions for the utilization of emotional cues as a means for understanding others. Clinical attention should be paid to emotion-related residual symptoms to help improve social outcomes in these patients.
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- Eosu Kim
- Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Behavioral Science in Medicine, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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It has been proposed that positive emotional biases could make bipolar manic (BM) patients maintain abnormally approaching behaviors during social interactions. To test this hypothesis, we measured interpersonal distance (IPD) and gaze angle of BM patients and normal controls (NCs) during social interaction in immersive virtual environment. Overall, IPDs of BM patients (n = 20) were greater than those of normal controls (n = 20). The IPD difference was even greater between NCs and BM patients with psychotic features (n = 11) than those without psychotic features (n = 9). Regardless of the presence of psychotic features, BM patients averted their gazes more than NCs, and even more while speaking than while listening. Our results might suggest negativistic social cognition of bipolar patients, as was previously found even during a manic phase, or the role of paranoid symptoms in avoidant social behaviors, in agreement with prior studies with schizophrenic patients. Use of proper space and gaze might have psychotherapeutic implication in developing secure, two-person relationship with bipolar patients regardless of the presence of disrupting manic symptoms.
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Tabarés-Seisdedos R, Balanzá-Martínez V, Sánchez-Moreno J, Martinez-Aran A, Salazar-Fraile J, Selva-Vera G, Rubio C, Mata I, Gómez-Beneyto M, Vieta E. Neurocognitive and clinical predictors of functional outcome in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder at one-year follow-up. J Affect Disord 2008; 109:286-99. [PMID: 18289698 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2007.12.234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 192] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2007] [Revised: 12/24/2007] [Accepted: 12/24/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Many studies have reported that cognitive ability may be predictive of the functional outcome for patients with schizophrenia. However, no study has prospectively examined these aspects in schizophrenia and bipolar disorders simultaneously. The present study attempted to analyze if neurocognition and clinical status predicts the real-life functioning for patients with schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder, using a longitudinal design. METHOD Forty-seven schizophrenic and 43 bipolar I outpatients were assessed twice with a neurocognitive battery (Executive Functions, Working Memory, Verbal Memory, Visual Memory, Visual-Motor Processing, Vigilance, Vocabulary and Motor Speed tasks), clinical scales (the Positive and Negative Symptom Scale, the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and the Clinician Administered Rating Scale for Mania) and functional outcome measures (the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale, the WHO's Disability Assessment Scale and occupational adaptation level) over a one-year follow-up period. The cognitive performance of the patients was compared, at baseline and one year later, with that of 25 healthy subjects. RESULTS In schizophrenia patients, global functioning one year later was predicted by a composite neurocognitive score and three specific domain (verbal memory, motor speed, vocabulary). Symptoms appeared to explain less of the variance in functioning. In bipolar I patients, changes in the composite neurocognitive score over one year, deficits in the visual/motor processing domain, severity of symptoms (psychotic, excitatory and affective symptoms) and premorbid adjustment at the first assessment were the variables that better predicted functioning or disability changes over follow-up period. CONCLUSIONS Although the relationships between cognition, symptoms and functional capacity differ for schizophrenia or bipolar I patients, neuropsychological performance seems to be a principal longitudinal predictor of functioning in both disorders. Baseline neurocognition and cognitive changes over 12 months predicted changes in functioning over the same period, but only in bipolar I patients. These cognitive domains could be potential neurocognitive endophenotypes (endophenocognitypes) with regard to bipolar I disorder.
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- Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos
- The Teaching Unit of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
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Hill SK, Harris MSH, Herbener ES, Pavuluri M, Sweeney JA. Neurocognitive allied phenotypes for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Schizophr Bull 2008; 34:743-59. [PMID: 18448479 PMCID: PMC2632447 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbn027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Psychiatric disorders are genetically complex and represent the end product of multiple biological and social factors. Links between genes and disorder-related abnormalities can be effectively captured via assessment of phenotypes that are both associated with genetic effects and potentially contributory to behavioral abnormalities. Identifying intermediate or allied phenotypes as a strategy for clarifying genetic contributions to disorders has been successful in other areas of medicine and is a promising strategy for identifying susceptibility genes in complex psychiatric disorders. There is growing evidence that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, rather than being wholly distinct disorders, share genetic risk at several loci. Further, there is growing evidence of similarity in the pattern of cognitive and neurobiological deficits in these groups, which may be the result of the effects of these common genetic factors. This review was undertaken to identify patterns of performance on neurocognitive and affective tasks across probands with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as well as unaffected family members, which warrant further investigation as potential intermediate trait markers. Available evidence indicates that measures of attention regulation, working memory, episodic memory, and emotion processing offer potential for identifying shared and illness-specific allied neurocognitive phenotypes for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. However, very few studies have evaluated neurocognitive dimensions in bipolar probands or their unaffected relatives, and much work in this area is needed.
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- S. Kristian Hill
- To whom correspondence should be addressed; tel: 312 996-2107, fax: 312 413-8837, e-mail:
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Martinez-Arán A, Vieta E, Chengappa KNR, Gershon S, Mullen J, Paulsson B. Reporting outcomes in clinical trials for bipolar disorder: a commentary and suggestions for change. Bipolar Disord 2008; 10:566-79. [PMID: 18657241 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5618.2008.00611.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Newer outcome measures and statistical reporting that better translate efficacy data to evidence-based psychiatric care are needed when evaluating clinical trials for bipolar disorder. Using efficacy studies as illustrations, the authors review and recommend changes in the reporting of traditional clinical outcomes both in the acute and maintenance phases of bipolar disorder. METHODS Definitions of response, remission, relapse, recovery, and recurrence are reviewed and recommendations for change are made. These suggestions include reporting the numbers needed to treat or harm (NNT or NNH), and a ratio of the two, likelihood of help or harm (LHH), as an important element of the effect size (ES). Moreover, models of prediction that conduct sensitivity or specificity analyses and utilize decision trees to help predict positive and negative outcomes of interest (for instance, excessive weight gain, or time to remission) using positive or negative predictive values (PPV or NPV) are reviewed for potential value to clinicians. Finally, functional and cognitive assessments are recommended for maintenance studies of bipolar disorder. RESULTS The examples provided in this manuscript underscore that reporting the NNT or NNH, or alternative effect sizes, or using PPV or NPV may be of particular value to clinicians. Such reports are likely to help translate efficacy-driven clinical data to information that will more readily guide clinicians on the benefits and risks of specific interventions in bipolar disorder. CONCLUSIONS The authors opine that reporting these newer outcomes, such as NNT or NNH, area under the receiver operating curve (AUC), or PPV or NPV will help translate the results of clinical trials into a language that is more readily understood by clinicians. Moreover, assessing and evaluating functional and cognitive outcomes will not only inform clinicians about potential differences among therapeutic options, but likely will make it easier to communicate such differences to persons with bipolar illness or to their families. Finally, we hope such scientific and research efforts will translate to optimism for recovery-based outcomes in persons with bipolar disorder.
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- Anabel Martinez-Arán
- Bipolar Disorders Program, IDIBAPS, CIBER-SAM, Clinical Institute of Neuroscience, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Stratta P, Riccardi I, Daneluzzo E, Tempesta D, Stzuglia F, Tomassini A, Rossi A. Does premorbid IQ have a pathoplastic effect on symptom presentation in schizophrenic and bipolar disorders? Encephale 2008; 33:733-7. [PMID: 18357842 DOI: 10.1016/j.encep.2006.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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INTRODUCTION The poor premorbid IQ has been considered as a predisposing factor for the development of schizophrenia and other psychoses as well as predictive of poor long-term outcome. We hypothesise that premorbid IQ could influence symptom expression during an index episode (i.e. a short-term outcome). AIM OF THE STUDY We studied 48 patients with schizophrenic disorder and 56 with bipolar disorder during an 'index episode' using the test di intelligenza breve (TIB) for the premorbid IQ evaluation, and the positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS). RESULTS Using the premorbid IQ as a criterion variable (i.e. low versus high IQ groups) the one-way ANOVA analysis showed that low IQ schizophrenic patients had more PANSS positive symptoms and "thought disturbances" than both high and low IQ bipolars. The low IQ schizophrenic patients showed more cognitive symptoms than bipolar patients with high IQ. Furthermore, no PANSS differences were seen between high IQ schizophrenics and low IQ bipolars. In the total and bipolar groups the correlation coefficients between TIB scores and PANSS scales reached statistical significance for the cognitive cluster only. No correlations were seen in the schizophrenic group. CONCLUSION This categorisation (i.e. low versus high IQ) adds clinically relevant knowledge to patients who, in spite of having similar symptom profile (i.e. high IQ schizophrenic patients and low IQ bipolar patients), fall into different diagnostic categories.
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- Department of Mental Health, A.U.S.L. 4, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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Wheeler A. Sociodemographic, functional and clinical correlates in outpatients with schizophrenia: comparison with affective disorders. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2007; 41:809-18. [PMID: 17828654 DOI: 10.1080/00048670701579066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To describe the demographic, social and functional characteristics and service utilization of people with schizophrenia attending four public psychiatric services in New Zealand and to compare this with (i) people with severe affective disorders attending the same four services and (ii) the New Zealand general population; and to examine conformity with evidence-based pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia. METHODS Clinical files for all adult outpatients attending the four specialist services were reviewed in October 2004 (n =6164). Patient characteristics, social and functional indicators, diagnosis, duration of illness, and admission information were recorded and analysed for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression (n =5032). Antipsychotic treatment was recorded for those with schizophrenia. RESULTS Outpatients with schizophrenia made up 47% of the outpatient population; 66% were male, the mean age 39 years and the mean illness duration was 14 years. Sixty-seven percent of schizophrenia outpatients had never been married, 69% had no regular occupational activity, 49% had no formal qualifications, 24% were living in group homes and 26% were treated compulsorily. These characteristics were consistently different compared to outpatients with severe affective disorders and the general population; schizophrenia patients were the most impaired, depression the least and the bipolar group in between. The majority of schizophrenia patients received evidence-based antipsychotic treatment; 84% received monotherapy; 81% prescribed an atypical; 33% prescribed clozapine. CONCLUSIONS The study shows significant impairment for schizophrenia patients in areas of intimate relationships, occupational activity, living situation, qualifications and specialist mental health service use despite evidence-based pharmacological treatment. To improve outcome optimal care must incorporate existing evidence-based, cost-effective interventions that focus on both symptoms and function. More effective treatments also need to be developed.
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- Amanda Wheeler
- Clinical Research and Resource Centre, Snelgar Building, Waitakere Hospital, Auckland, Waitakere, New Zealand.
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Schretlen DJ, Cascella NG, Meyer SM, Kingery LR, Testa SM, Munro CA, Pulver AE, Rivkin P, Rao VA, Diaz-Asper CM, Dickerson FB, Yolken RH, Pearlson GD. Neuropsychological functioning in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry 2007; 62:179-86. [PMID: 17161829 PMCID: PMC2041824 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.09.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2006] [Revised: 09/20/2006] [Accepted: 09/21/2006] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Some patients with bipolar disorder (BD) demonstrate neuropsychological deficits even when stable. However, it remains unclear whether these differ qualitatively from those seen in schizophrenia (SZ). METHODS We compared the nature and severity of cognitive deficits shown by 106 patients with SZ and 66 patients with BD to 316 healthy adults (NC). All participants completed a cognitive battery with 19 individual measures. After adjusting their test performance for age, sex, race, education, and estimated premorbid IQ, we derived regression-based T-scores for each measure and the six cognitive domains. RESULTS Both patient groups performed significantly worse than NCs on most (BD) or all (SZ) cognitive tests and domains. The resulting effect sizes ranged from .37 to 1.32 (mean=.97) across tests for SZ patients and from .23 to .87 (mean=.59) for BD patients. The Pearson correlation of these effect sizes was .71 (p<.001). CONCLUSIONS Patients with bipolar disorder suffer from cognitive deficits that are milder but qualitatively similar to those of patients with schizophrenia. These findings support the notion that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder show greater phenotypic similarity in terms of the nature than severity of their neuropsychological deficits.
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- David J Schretlen
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287-7218, and Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center, Hartford Hospital Institute of Living, CT, USA.
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Brambilla P, Macdonald AW, Sassi RB, Johnson MK, Mallinger AG, Carter CS, Soares JC. Context processing performance in bipolar disorder patients. Bipolar Disord 2007; 9:230-7. [PMID: 17430297 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5618.2007.00398.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Context processing is the adaptive control of current behavior through the use of prior context information. It has been found to be impaired in schizophrenia. Some studies have indicated that, compared with patients with schizophrenia, those with bipolar disorder (BPD) display a similar but less severe neuropsychological pattern of impairment. However, this cognitive dimension has not yet been examined in BPD patients in the existing literature. METHODS An expectancy version of the AX continuous performance test (AX-CPT) was administered to 15 bipolar outpatients and 26 healthy controls. Patients with schizophrenia, in which context processing deficits are known to occur, were used as a reference group. RESULTS Bipolar patients showed a context processing deficit relative to healthy controls, although this was less severe and generalized than in schizophrenia patients. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest there are milder impairments in context processing in BPD compared with schizophrenia. However, the severity of possible context processing deficits in BPD may have been underestimated in our sample of mostly euthymic outpatients.
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- Paolo Brambilla
- Department of Pathology and Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
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BACKGROUND Evidence indicates that social outcomes in bipolar disorders (BP) are poorer than previously assumed. This study explores determinants of the quality and quantity of social activity. METHODS Seventy-seven subjects with BP completed self-report and observer-rated questionnaires assessing demographic and clinical factors, personality and social functioning. RESULTS Quality of functioning and spectrum of activity were found to be independent. The best determinants of the quality of functioning, accounting for 33% of the variance, were premorbid neuroticism and the current level of depressive symptoms. Only 30% of subjects were active in all social domains, and the quantity of social activity was largely explained by social circumstances, namely, living with someone else and later age of illness onset. CONCLUSIONS The implications of these findings are discussed in this paper. We suggest that future studies need to differentiate between factors associated with the quality of functioning as compared with the quantity of social activity.
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- Marie Pope
- Department of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Psychiatry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle, UK
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Malhi GS, Ivanovski B, Hadzi-Pavlovic D, Mitchell PB, Vieta E, Sachdev P. Neuropsychological deficits and functional impairment in bipolar depression, hypomania and euthymia. Bipolar Disord 2007; 9:114-25. [PMID: 17391355 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5618.2007.00324.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 229] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To examine whether patients with bipolar disorder (BD) have subtle neuropsychological deficits that manifest clinically as cognitive and functional compromise, and this study attempted to determine the pattern of such cognitive deficits and their functional impact across all three phases of BD. We hypothesised that euthymia does not equate with normal neuropsychological function and that each phase has a characteristic pattern of deficits, with disturbance in attention and memory being common across all phases of the illness: (i) bipolar depression - psychomotor slowing and impairment of memory; (ii) hypomania by frontal-executive deficits and (iii) euthymia - a mild disturbance of attention, memory and executive function. METHODS Twenty-five patients with a diagnosis of bipolar I disorder underwent neuropsychological testing over a period of 30 months in the natural course of their illness while hypomanic and/or depressed and/or euthymic. The results from these assessments were compared with findings from neuropsychological tests conducted on 25 healthy controls matched for age, sex, education and handedness. RESULTS Initial analyses revealed modest impairment in executive functioning, memory and attention in both hypomanic and depressed bipolar patients, with additional fine motor skills impairment in the latter. Memory deficits, also noted in euthymic patients, were non-significant after controlling for confounding variables, although bipolar depressed patients remained significantly impaired on tests of verbal recall. Bipolar depressed and hypomanic patients differed with respect to the nature of their memory impairment. Depressed patients were more impaired as compared with euthymic patients on tests of verbal recall and fine motor skills. Psychosocial functioning was impaired across all three patient groups, but only in depressed and hypomanic patients did this correlate significantly with neuropsychological performance. CONCLUSIONS The mood-state-related cognitive deficits in both bipolar depression and hypomania compromise psychosocial function when patients are unwell. In euthymic patients, subtle impairments in attention and memory suggest that an absence of symptoms does not necessarily equate to 'recovery'. The possibility of persistent cognitive deficits in BD is an issue of profound clinical and research interest that warrants further investigation; however, future research needs to adopt more sophisticated neuropsychological probes that are able to better define state and trait deficits and determine their functional impact.
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- Gin S Malhi
- Academic Discipline of Psychological Medicine, Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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Martinez-Aran A, Vieta E, Torrent C, Sanchez-Moreno J, Goikolea JM, Salamero M, Malhi GS, Gonzalez-Pinto A, Daban C, Alvarez-Grandi S, Fountoulakis K, Kaprinis G, Tabares-Seisdedos R, Ayuso-Mateos JL. Functional outcome in bipolar disorder: the role of clinical and cognitive factors. Bipolar Disord 2007; 9:103-13. [PMID: 17391354 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5618.2007.00327.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 382] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Few studies have examined the clinical, neuropsychological and pharmacological factors involved in the functional outcome of bipolar disorder despite the gap between clinical and functional recovery. METHODS A sample of 77 euthymic bipolar patients were included in the study. Using an a priori definition of low versus good functional outcome, based on the psychosocial items of the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF, DSM-IV), and taking also into account their occupational adaptation, the patients were divided into two groups: good or low occupational functioning. Patients with high (n = 46) and low (n = 31) functioning were compared on several clinical, neuropsychological and pharmacological variables and the two patient groups were contrasted with healthy controls (n = 35) on cognitive performance. RESULTS High- and low-functioning groups did not differ with respect to clinical variables. However, bipolar patients in general showed poorer cognitive performance than healthy controls. This was most evident in low-functioning patients and in particular on verbal memory and executive function measures. CONCLUSIONS Low-functioning patients were cognitively more impaired than highly functioning patients on verbal recall and executive functions. The variable that best predicted psychosocial functioning in bipolar patients was verbal memory.
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- A Martinez-Aran
- Institute of Neurosciences, University Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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Daban C, Martinez-Aran A, Torrent C, Tabarés-Seisdedos R, Balanzá-Martínez V, Salazar-Fraile J, Selva-Vera G, Vieta E. Specificity of cognitive deficits in bipolar disorder versus schizophrenia. A systematic review. PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSOMATICS 2006; 75:72-84. [PMID: 16508342 DOI: 10.1159/000090891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND More and more epidemiological, genetic and neuroimaging studies show similarities between bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ). Cognitive functions are known to be highly impaired in SZ and are increasingly studied in BD. When both populations are compared, the conclusions appear to be contradictory. The purpose of this review is to help define the profile of cognitive deficits in BD and in SZ. METHODS A systematic review of the literature of neuropsychological studies comparing BD and SZ was made, beginning in January 1990 and ending in January 2005. Thirty-eight studies met the required quality criteria and were included in this review. RESULTS Bipolar patients exhibit extensive cognitive abnormalities with a pattern of deficits that is not unique to this disease. However, when compared to schizophrenic patients, bipolar patients demonstrate a lesser degree of deficits, particularly concerning premorbid and current intelligence quotient and perhaps attention, verbal memory and executive functions. When looking into effect sizes, there seem to be different profiles even in studies finding no significant differences. CONCLUSIONS The neuropsychological differences reported between both groups could be due to the presence of psychotic features, to environmental factors (stressful events, duration of the disease and number of hospitalisations) and could also be related to differences during the neurodevelopmental phase. Further studies should confirm whether these results are truly related to different neurobiological backgrounds.
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- Claire Daban
- Bipolar Disorders Program, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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Laes JR, Sponheim SR. Does cognition predict community function only in schizophrenia?: a study of schizophrenia patients, bipolar affective disorder patients, and community control subjects. Schizophr Res 2006; 84:121-31. [PMID: 16443348 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2005.11.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2005] [Revised: 11/23/2005] [Accepted: 11/30/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Cognitive deficits predict functioning in schizophrenia; however, little is known as to whether the association is present in other mental disorders. If specific cognitive deficits uniquely predict functional impairment in schizophrenia the association of select aspects of brain dysfunction with daily living would suggest an intervention target and perhaps a means by which to improve the functioning of schizophrenia patients. The relationship of cognition and functioning was investigated in schizophrenia (n=39), bipolar affective disorder (n=27), and nonpsychiatric control (n=38) participants to determine whether the associations varied across groups. We examined verbal memory, verbal learning, verbal fluency, vigilance, executive functioning, symptomatology, and generalized cognitive functioning for associations with social function. Correlational analyses revealed particular cognitive domains (e.g., verbal memory) to be associated with social functioning in schizophrenia, bipolar, and control subjects; however generalized cognitive function and symptomatology were also associated with social functioning in patients. Multiple regression analyses revealed that in schizophrenia poor verbal memory predicted worse social functioning even after the effects of generalized cognitive dysfunction were considered. Verbal memory indices failed to account for variance in social function in bipolar patients and control subjects after consideration of generalized cognitive function. Bipolar patients with worse planning and problem solving tended to have worse social functioning. Therefore, unlike schizophrenia patients who may fail to process verbally mediated material, bipolar patients' difficulty with logical approaches to problems in daily living may have the greatest impact on their community function.
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- JoAn R Laes
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, 2450 Riverside Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
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Burdick KE, Goldberg JF, Harrow M, Faull RN, Malhotra AK. Neurocognition as a stable endophenotype in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. J Nerv Ment Dis 2006; 194:255-60. [PMID: 16614546 DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000207360.70337.7e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Linkage and association studies have paid increasing attention to neurocognition as a putative endophenotype. However, there exists little documentation of its trait stability in schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Our aim was to determine the longitudinal stability of neurocognitive performance in bipolar versus schizophrenia probands. We administered a neurocognitive battery at two time points, approximately 5 years apart, in 16 schizophrenia and 16 bipolar disorder age-matched subjects. There were no significant changes over time on variables including education, estimated IQ, depression, psychosis, global functioning, or medication status. Schizophrenia subjects showed significant deterioration in one measure of executive functioning but no significant changes in seven of eight other domains. Bipolar patients showed stability over time in attentional measures but greater variability in other domains. These preliminary findings suggest that neurocognitive domains appear longitudinally stable across broad domains in schizophrenia. In contrast, stable functioning may be more limited to attentional domains in bipolar disorder.
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- Katherine E Burdick
- Bipolar Disorders Research Program, Department of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, New York 11004, USA
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Cognition denotes a relatively high level of processing of specific information including thinking, memory, perception, motivation, skilled movements and language. Cognitive psychology has become an important discipline in the research of a number of psychiatric disorders, ranging from severe psychotic illness such as schizophrenia to relatively benign, yet significantly disabling, non-psychotic illnesses such as somatoform disorder. Research in the area of neurocognition has started unlocking various secrets of psychiatric disorders, such as revealing the biological underpinnings, explaining the underlying psychopathology and issues related to course, outcome and treatment strategies. Such research has also attempted to uproot a number of previously held concepts, such as Kraepelin's dichotomy. Although the range of cognitive problems can be diverse, there are several cognitive domains, including executive function, attention and information processing, and working memory, which appear more frequently at risk. A broad range of impairment across and within the psychiatric disorders are highlighted in this oration. The oration summarizes the studies investigating cognitive processing in different psychiatric disorders. I will also discuss the findings of my own research on neurocognitive deficits in mood disorders, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, somatoform disorder, including studies on 'high-risk' individuals. Tracing the evaluation of neurocognitive science may provide new insights into the pathophysiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders.
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- J K Trivedi
- Professor, Department of Psychiatry, King George Medical University, Lucknow 226006, Uttar Pradesh, e-mail: , , ,
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Krabbendam L, Arts B, van Os J, Aleman A. Cognitive functioning in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a quantitative review. Schizophr Res 2005; 80:137-49. [PMID: 16183257 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2005.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 229] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2005] [Revised: 08/09/2005] [Accepted: 08/09/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Evidence suggests that cognitive functioning in bipolar disorder may be impaired even in euthymic states, but it is unclear if the pattern of deficits is similar to the deficits found in schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to review quantitatively the studies on cognitive performance in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. METHODS Articles for consideration were identified through a literature search in MEDLINE and PsycLIT in the period between 1985 and October 2004, using the keywords "schizophrenia" combined with "bipolar disorder", or "manic-depress*" or "manic" combined with "cogniti*" or "neuropsycholog*". Thirty-one studies were included that: i) evaluated cognitive performance using standardized and reliable neuropsychological testing procedures; ii) compared adult patients with schizophrenia and with bipolar disorder; iii) reported test scores of both patient groups, or exact p-values, t-values, or F-values; and iv) were published as an original article in a peer-reviewed English language journal. RESULTS Meta-analyses of all studies indicated that patients with bipolar disorder generally perform better than patients with schizophrenia, but the distribution of effect sizes showed substantial heterogeneity. Results based on a more homogeneous subset of studies that matched patient groups on clinical and demographic characteristics pointed in the same direction, with effect sizes in the moderate range. CONCLUSIONS Patients with bipolar disorder show better cognitive performance than patients with schizophrenia, even when matched for clinical and demographic characteristics.
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- Lydia Krabbendam
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limburg Mental Health Research and Teaching Network, EURON, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
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Kravariti E, Dixon T, Frith C, Murray R, McGuire P. Association of symptoms and executive function in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Schizophr Res 2005; 74:221-31. [PMID: 15722002 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2004.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2004] [Revised: 06/09/2004] [Accepted: 06/10/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The extent to which cognitive impairment in psychosis is related to the particular disorder or the pattern of symptoms is unclear. We examined executive function in two groups of schizophrenia patients with predominant symptoms of disorganisation (n=15) and psychomotor poverty (n=15), respectively, two groups of bipolar I disorder patients with predominant symptoms of mania (n=15) and depression (n=15), respectively, and 30 healthy controls. We predicted that the pattern of symptoms ('excess' [disorganisation/mania] or 'deficiency' [negative symptoms/depression]) would be more related to executive ability than the underlying disorder. The patient groups showed partially overlapping executive dysfunctions relative to the control group. There were no significant differences between groups with 'excess' symptoms (schizophrenia patients with thought disorder and bipolar patients with mania), or between groups with 'deficiency' symptoms (schizophrenia patients with negative symptoms and bipolar patients with depression). In contrast, differences were noted between groups with the same diagnosis: Schizophrenia patients with disorganisation were less accurate in semantic verbal fluency than those with negative symptoms; and bipolar patients with mania tended to be faster, but less accurate, in sentence completion than those with depression. A statistical comparison of the associations of 'diagnosis' and the 'excess-deficiency' dimension with executive function revealed a trend for a greater association of the latter with two measures of performance accuracy. Executive dysfunction in patients with psychotic disorders may be more related to their symptom profile than their diagnosis.
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- Eugenia Kravariti
- Department of Psychiatry, Division of Psychological Medicine, Box 63, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK.
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Olley A, Malhi GS, Mitchell PB, Batchelor J, Lagopoulos J, Austin MPV. When euthymia is just not good enough: the neuropsychology of bipolar disorder. J Nerv Ment Dis 2005; 193:323-30. [PMID: 15870616 DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000161684.35904.f4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Bipolar disorder (BD) is a debilitating psychiatric illness that is uniquely characterized by switching between psychopathologically contrasting phases of mania and depression, often with intervening periods of euthymia. However, these periods of apparent clinical recovery (euthymia) are marked by subtle social, occupational, and cognitive impairments, profiled by recent neuropsychological investigations. Determining the cognitive changes across these three phases may help differentiate the disruptions that are mood state-dependent from those associated with underlying pathology. This article therefore critically reviews the reported neuropsychological impairments in BD and the methodological limitations facing such research. Integration of the available evidence, principally from the field of neuropsychology, when synthesized, implicates the prefrontal cortex in the etiopathogenesis of BD and posits cortical-subcortical-limbic disruption in recovered euthymic patients that manifests as cognitive dysfunction.
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- Amanda Olley
- School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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Malhi GS, Ivanovski B, Szekeres V, Olley A. Bipolar disorder: it's all in your mind? The neuropsychological profile of a biological disorder. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY. REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHIATRIE 2004; 49:813-9. [PMID: 15679204 DOI: 10.1177/070674370404901204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To compare and contrast the neuropsychological profile of the 3 phases of bipolar disorder (BD) to achieve a better definition of BD and to identify potential state and trait deficits. METHODS We conducted a search for English-language papers published in journals from 1965 onward, using the following terms in Medline and Embase: neuropsychology or neuropsychological and BD, depression, mania, and euthymia. We scrutinized suitable subheadings and retrieved familiar papers and literature. RESULTS We initially identified more than 100 articles and then excluded reviews and papers that did not directly administer neuropsychological tests. This left 27 papers, which we further examined and the findings of which we tabulated and discussed. Cognitive and executive functioning deficits were found, including set-shifting, verbal fluency, planning, attention, and memory. CONCLUSIONS The neuropsychological deficits found in bipolar depression, mania or hypomania, and euthymia provide important insights into the pathophysiology of BD and may, in future studies, form the basis of clinically meaningful subtypes.
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- Gin S Malhi
- Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
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Dickerson F, Boronow JJ, Stallings C, Origoni AE, Cole SK, Yolken RH. Cognitive functioning in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: comparison of performance on the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status. Psychiatry Res 2004; 129:45-53. [PMID: 15572184 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2004.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2003] [Revised: 04/20/2004] [Accepted: 07/01/2004] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Cognitive dysfunction is an important feature of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. There is uncertainty about the relative magnitude of cognitive deficits in these disorders. We evaluated a total of 446 individuals: 229 with schizophrenia, 117 with bipolar disorder, and 100 controls without a history of psychiatric disorder. All participants were administered the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), a cognitive screening battery that evaluated immediate verbal memory, visuospatial/constructional abilities, attention, language, and delayed memory. A comparison of the three groups showed significant differences on the RBANS total score and all of the measured domains. In all of the comparisons, the schizophrenia group obtained the lowest scores, followed by the bipolar disorder group, and then the individuals without psychiatric disorder. In an analysis of covariance of RBANS total scores with the patient samples, the difference between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder remained significant after controlling for a range of demographic and clinical variables. Both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are associated with significant cognitive impairments, but those in schizophrenia are more severe. Cognitive deficits may be an appropriate target of treatment interventions in these disorders.
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- Faith Dickerson
- Stanley Research Center, Sheppard Pratt Health System, 6501 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21204, USA.
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Altshuler LL, Ventura J, van Gorp WG, Green MF, Theberge DC, Mintz J. Neurocognitive function in clinically stable men with bipolar I disorder or schizophrenia and normal control subjects. Biol Psychiatry 2004; 56:560-9. [PMID: 15476685 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2004] [Revised: 07/26/2004] [Accepted: 08/04/2004] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia have been shown to have neurocognitive deficits when compared with control subjects. The degree and pattern of impairment between psychiatric groups have rarely been compared, especially when subjects are psychiatrically stable. METHODS Using a standard neurocognitive battery, we compared euthymic outpatients with bipolar disorder (n = 40), stable patients with schizophrenia (n = 20), and subjects with no psychiatric disorder (n = 22). The neurocognitive domains assessed included executive functioning, verbal memory, visual memory, procedural learning, visuoconstructive ability, and language functions. Effect sizes were calculated for each cognitive domain across groups. RESULTS Stable schizophrenic subjects demonstrated a generalized cognitive impairment across most domains compared with control subjects, with average effect sizes of .9. Euthymic bipolar subjects were significantly impaired compared with control subjects only in executive functioning (Wisconsin Card Sorting Task) and verbal memory (California Verbal Learning Test) domains (effect sizes in the .8-.9 range). Performance on the executive function measures was bimodal among bipolar subjects, suggesting two subgroups: one with relatively normal and one with impaired executive functioning. No significant differences between the bipolar patient group and control subjects were observed in visuoconstructive ability, procedural learning, or language function. CONCLUSIONS Both euthymic bipolar subjects and relatively stable schizophrenic subjects differed from control subjects in neurocognitive function. Among schizophrenic subjects, a generalized cognitive impairment was observed, and the degree of impairment was greater in the schizophrenic compared with the bipolar subjects. Subjects with bipolar disorder were impaired in two specific domains (verbal memory and executive function). Furthermore, within the bipolar group there was a subset with relatively normal executive functioning and a subset with significant impairment. Possible reasons for the persistence of these neurocognitive deficits in some subjects with bipolar disorder during periods of euthymia are reviewed.
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- Lori L Altshuler
- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Fitzgerald D, Lucas S, Redoblado MA, Winter V, Brennan J, Anderson J, Harris A. Cognitive functioning in young people with first episode psychosis: relationship to diagnosis and clinical characteristics. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2004; 38:501-10. [PMID: 15255822 DOI: 10.1080/j.1440-1614.2004.01403.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To examine the extent and nature of neuropsychological deficits in adolescents and young people with first episode psychosis (FEP), and to determine whether the pattern and extent of neuropsychological deficits varied according to diagnosis. METHOD A total of 83 FEP subjects aged 13-25 years, and 31 healthy controls completed a comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests, grouped into 10 cognitive domains. First episode psychosis subjects were stratified into three diagnostic groups (schizophrenia, affective disorders, substance-induced psychosis) and differences in cognitive profiles were examined. The contribution of demographic and clinical characteristics to cognitive performance was also explored. RESULTS The schizophrenia group demonstrated significantly worse performance on tasks of verbal learning and memory than the affective disorders group. Compared to healthy controls, the schizophrenia group also demonstrated global impairment across the majority of cognitive domains. The substance-induced group's performance lay between that of the schizophrenia and affective disorders groups. Analyses of differential deficits revealed that verbal learning, verbal memory and current intellectual functioning were selectively impaired in the schizophrenia group, whereas the affective disorders group demonstrated a selective deficit in speeded processing. Premorbid intellectual functioning, negative symptomatology and medication levels were the strongest predictors of cognitive performance in FEP subjects. CONCLUSIONS Verbal memory deficits differentiate individuals with schizophrenia from those with psychotic affective disorders. Although significant cognitive deficits are evident across all diagnostic FEP groups, individuals with schizophrenia appear to have more generalized impairment across a broad array of cognitive functions than other psychotic diagnoses. Lower premorbid intellectual functioning does not appear to contribute to greater cognitive deterioration following onset of psychosis, but severity of illness may be a more important factor than levels of mood disturbance.
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- Dianne Fitzgerald
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Westmead Hospital, PO Box 533, Wentworthville, New South Wales, 2145, Australia.
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