Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the sustained attention and cognitive deficits in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder type II. Methods: The research method was causal-comparative (case-control) type. Statistical population was all the patients with bipolar disorder type II and schizophrenia at Isar and Fatemi hospitals in 2015 i...

objective: the aim was to determine how personality of major depressive disorder (mdd) patients is different from that of bipolar ii disorder (biid) patients. methods: in this cross-sectional study, two groups of patients with mdd (47 patients) and biid (45 patients) between 18 and 55 years old were included and compared. the research instrument that subjects answered to was temperament and cha...

objective: the aim of this study was to identify prognosis factors associated with recurrence in patients ‎with bipolar disorder.‎‎ method: this retrospective cohort study was conducted in hamadan province, the west of iran. all ‎patients (n = 400) with bipolar disorder who were hospitalized for the second time or more ‎during april 2008 to september 2014 were included in this study. ordinal lo...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to compare the sustained attention and cognitive deficits in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder type II. Methods: The research method was causal-comparative (case-control) type. Statistical population was all the patients with bipolar disorder type II and schizophrenia at Isar and Fatemi hospitals in 2015 i...

BACKGROUND Cognitive deficits have been documented in patients with bipolar disorder. Further, it has been suggested that the degree and type of cognitive impairment differ between bipolar I and bipolar II disorder, but data is conflicting and remains inconclusive. This study aimed to clarify the suggested differences in cognitive impairment between patients with bipolar I and II disorder in a ...

objective: the aim of this study was to compare the qeeg of adolescents affected by bipolar ii disorder with age and gender matched healthy controls, and to extract the characteristics of the alpha frequency band to better understand this disorder. methods: twenty one adolescents affected by acute episodes of bipolar ii disorder (bmd ii), both hypomanic and depressive episodes, were selected vi...

BACKGROUND We investigated our translation of The Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) as a screening instrument for bipolar disorder in a psychiatric setting in Finland. METHODS In a pilot study for the Jorvi Bipolar Study (JoBS), 109 consecutive non-schizophrenic psychiatric out- and inpatients in Espoo, Finland, were screened for bipolar disorder using the Finnish translation of the MDQ, and ...

OBJECTIVE Although impulsivity may seem to be strongly linked to bipolar disorder, few studies have directly measured this phenomenon. To determine its implications for the prognosis of this illness, we studied the relationship between impulsivity and other aspects that are probably related, such as sensation seeking and aggressiveness, and different clinical variables of bipolar disorder. ME...