The neurocognitive signature of psychotic bipolar disorder.

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David C Glahn,Carrie E Bearden,Marcela Barguil,Jennifer Barrett,Abraham Reichenberg,Charles L Bowden,Jair C Soares,Dawn I Velligan,

BACKGROUND: Psychotic bipolar disorder may represent a neurobiologically distinct subgroup of bipolar affective illness. We sought to ascertain the profile of cognitive impairment in patients with bipolar disorder and to determine whether a distinct profile of cognitive deficits characterizes bipolar patients with a history of psychosis. METHODS: Sixty-nine outpatients with bipolar I disorder (34 with a history of psychotic symptoms and 35 with no history of psychosis) and 35 healthy comparison subjects underwent a comprehensive neurocognitive battery. All three groups were demographically matched. RESULTS: Despite preserved general intellectual function, bipolar I patients overall showed moderate impairments on tests of episodic memory and specific executive measures (average effect size = .58), and moderate to severe deficits on attentional and processing speed tasks (average effect size = .82). Bipolar I patients with a history of psychosis were impaired on measures of executive functioning and spatial working memory compared with bipolar patients without history of psychosis. CONCLUSIONS: Psychotic bipolar disorder was associated with differential impairment on tasks requiring frontal/executive processing, suggesting that psychotic symptoms may have neural correlates that are at least partially independent of those associated with bipolar I disorder more generally. However, deficits in attention, psychomotor speed, and memory appear to be part of the broader disease phenotype in patients with bipolar disorder.

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DC Glahn,CE Bearden,M Barguil,J Barrett,A Reichenberg,CL Bowden,JC Soares,DI Velligan,

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PUBLICATION TYPE: Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov

Journal: Biological psychiatry

VOLUME: 62

Page Numbers: 910-6

Journal Abbreviation: Biol. Psychiatry

ISSN: 0006-3223

DAY: 1

MONTH: 06

YEAR: 2007

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LANGUAGE: eng

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AFFILIATION: Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900, USA.

Country: United States

AGENCY: United States NIMH

GRANT: MH62850

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MEDLINETA: Biol Psychiatry

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