| Autor: |
Maria Gloria Rossetti, Cinzia Perlini, Vera Abbiati, Carolina Bonivento, Elisabetta Caletti, Giuseppe Fanelli, Mariangela Lanfredi, Matteo Lazzaretti, Laura Pedrini, Sara Piccin, Stefano Porcelli, Michela Sala, Alessandro Serretti, Marcella Bellani, Paolo Brambilla |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
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Comprehensive Psychiatry, Vol 117, Iss , Pp 152335- (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
0010-440X |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.comppsych.2022.152335 |
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Objectives: Cognitive deficits in Bipolar Disorder (BD) are significant enough to have an impact on daily functioning. Therefore, appropriate tools must be used to improve our understanding of the nature and severity of cognitive deficits in BD. In this study, we aimed to compare the cognitive profiles of patients with BD and healthy controls (HC) applying the Italian version of the Brief Assessment of Cognition in Affective Disorders (BAC-A). Methods: This cross-sectional study included 127 patients with BD and 134 HC. The participants' cognitive profiles were evaluated using the Italian version of the BAC-A, which assesses verbal memory, working memory, motor speed, verbal fluency, attention & processing speed, executive functions, and two new measures of affective processing. The BAC-A raw scores were corrected using the normative data for the Italian population. In addition, we explored whether intelligence quotient (IQ) and specific clinical variables would predict the BAC-A affective, non-affective, and total composite scores of patients with BD and HC. Results: HC performed better than patients with BD in all BAC-A subtests (all p |
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