Examining cognition across the bipolar/schizophrenia diagnostic spectrum
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Examining cognition across the bipolar/schizophrenia diagnostic spectrum.
BACKGROUND Cognitive impairments are well-established features of schizophrenia, but there is ongoing debate about the nature and degree of cognitive impairment in patients with schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder. We hypothesized that there is a spectrum of increasing impairment from bipolar disorder to schizoaffective disorder bipolar type, to schizoaffective disorder depressive typ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1180-4882
DOI: 10.1503/jpn.170076