Abstract
Structure of cognitive disorders in patients with primary episode of bipolar affective disorder
Highlights
Bipolar affective disorder (BAD) is one of the most pressing problems in modern psychiatry
In the primary episode (PE) of BAD, the spectrum of cognitive symptomatology is determined by the clinical variant: in depressive the phenomena of cognitive slowing, attention deficit and performance functions are dominated, in the manic – the disorder of thinking, and in the mixed variant, all the spectrum of disorders are present; gender influence has no significant effect on the structure of cognitive symptomatology
PE of BAD is accompanied by pronounced manifestations of cognitive dysfunction, the spectrum of which differs significantly depending on the clinical type of the disease debut (Table 1)
Summary
Bipolar affective disorder (BAD) is one of the most pressing problems in modern psychiatry. The disease of BAD is characterized by a high prevalence, high level of comorbidity, dependence form psychoactive substances, decreased quality of life and social functioning of patients, high suicidal risk and the need for long-term treatment [1,2,3,4]. The diagnosis of BAD at the initial stage is insufficient, as this disease is characterized by a significant polymorphism of symptoms, and modern methods of early diagnosis of it are imperfect [5,6,7]. Particular attention has been paid to the study of the features of cognitive disorders in BAD. Studies of the features of cognitive disorders in the PE of BAD have not yet been conducted, which made impossible to understand
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