Impaired sustained attention and executive dysfunction: Bipolar disorder versus depression-specific markers of affective disorders

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1862-1868

  Maalouf, Fadi T ^a,b   Klein, Crystal ^a   Clark, Luke ^c   Sahakian, Barbara J ^c   LaBarbara, Edmund J ^a   Versace, Amelia ^a   Hassel, Stefanie ^a   Almeida, Jorge R C ^a   Phillips, Mary L ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Cognitive control; Depression; Executive function; Neurocognition; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORDERS OF HIGHER CEREBRAL FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ONSET AGE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77952554358     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.02.015     Document Type: Article

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