Cognitive Impairment in Patients With Bipolar Disorder

The test requires 5 minutes for a recall trial and 2 minutes for a recognition trial. Because this is an experimental paradigm at this stage, there are 12 different variables; these have been tested to assess the power of discrimination between controls and affective patients. * Emotion inhibition test: [...] neurocognitive characterization of this period of illness is particularly important.6 In a 34-site clinical trial, 166 patients with bipolar depression were assessed with the BAC-A.5 Bipolar patients performed significantly worse on the BAC-A subtests that measure the traditional neurocognitive domain than did a sample of 404 nonpsychiatric controls.