Social and nonsocial cognition in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia: relative levels of impairment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to determine the relative extent of impairment in social and nonsocial cognitive domains in patients with bipolar disorder compared with schizophrenia patients and healthy comparison subjects.

Methods

Sixty-eight clinically stable outpatients with bipolar disorder, 38 clinically stable outpatients with schizophrenia, and 36 healthy comparison subjects completed a range of social (facial affect perception, emotional regulation, empathic accuracy, mental state attribution, and self-referential memory) and nonsocial (speed of processing, attention/vigilance, working memory, verbal memory, visual memory, and reasoning/problem solving) cognitive tasks.

Results

For each social cognitive task, patients with bipolar disorder did not differ significa

SUBMITTER: Lee J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3869864 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature