The impact of cognitive dysfunction on patients

Studying neurocognitive functioning in patients with bipolar disorder during a stable euthymic period is an interesting burgeoning field of research.¹ This study compared 60 such euthymic patients with 30 matched healthy controls, and found that there was an additional burden from cognitive dysfunction in the population with bipolar disorder.¹ The level of some cognitive dysfunction appeared to correlate with some measures of disease progression or severity, such as previous hospitalizations, and number of hypomanic episodes.¹

Reference:
1. Okasha TA, El Sheikh MM, El Missiry AA, et al. Cognitive functions in euthymic Egyptian patients with bipolar disorder: are they different from healthy controls? J Affect Disord 2014; 166: 14–21.