Baer Arts

TL;DR: Executive function and verbal memory are candidate bipolar endophenotypes given large deficits in these domains in bipolar patients and small, but intermediate, cognitive impairments in first-degree relatives.

TL;DR: Patients with bipolar disorder show better cognitive performance than patients with schizophrenia, even when matched for clinical and demographic characteristics, but the distribution of effect sizes showed substantial heterogeneity.

TL;DR: Qualitative analysis of the literature on cognitive side-effects of lithium in patients with a bipolar disorder identified four of 17 studies that fulfilled criteria of adequate methodological quality that showed that lithium had a negative effect on memory and speed of information processing.

TL;DR: Investigation of the tissue distribution of brain- and heart-type fatty acid-binding proteins in segments of the human brain and the potential of either protein to serve as plasma marker for diagnosis of brain injury indicates that B-FABP and H-FabP are more sensitive markers for minor brain injury than the currently used markers S100B and NSE.

TL;DR: A 2‐year naturalistic study on cognitive functioning in bipolar disorder and its implications for treatment and relapse rates is published.