Genetics of bipolar disorder

N Craddock, P Sklar - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
Studies of families and twins show the importance of genetic factors affecting susceptibility to
bipolar disorder and suggest substantial genetic and phenotypic complexity. Robust and …

Cognitive dysfunction in unipolar depression: implications for treatment

MH Trivedi, TL Greer - Journal of affective disorders, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective The primary objective of this review is to examine the literature assessing
abnormalities in neural circuitry and cognition early in the course of major depressive …

GWAS meta-analysis reveals novel loci and genetic correlates for general cognitive function: a report from the COGENT consortium

JW Trampush, MLZ Yang, J Yu, E Knowles… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
The complex nature of human cognition has resulted in cognitive genomics lagging behind
many other fields in terms of gene discovery using genome-wide association study (GWAS) …

Executive function impairments in depression and bipolar disorder: association with functional impairment and quality of life

C Cotrena, LD Branco, FM Shansis… - Journal of affective …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background The neuropsychological correlates of major depressive (MDD) and bipolar
disorder (BD), and their association with quality of life (QOL) and functioning, have not been …

Empirical evidence for discrete neurocognitive subgroups in bipolar disorder: clinical implications

KE Burdick, M Russo, S Frangou, K Mahon… - Psychological …, 2014 - cambridge.org
BackgroundRecent data suggest trait-like neurocognitive impairments in bipolar disorder
(BPD), with deficits about 1 sd below average, less severe than deficits noted in …

Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia

RSE Keefe, PD Harvey - Novel antischizophrenia treatments, 2012 - Springer
Cognitive functioning is moderately to severely impaired in patients with schizophrenia. This
impairment is the prime driver of the significant disabilities in occupational, social, and …

Methodological recommendations for cognition trials in bipolar disorder by the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Targeting Cognition Task Force

KW Miskowiak, KE Burdick, A Martinez‐Aran… - Bipolar …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To aid the development of treatment for cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder,
the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) convened a task force to create a …

Characterizing cognitive heterogeneity on the schizophrenia–bipolar disorder spectrum

TE Van Rheenen, KE Lewandowski, EJ Tan… - Psychological …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Background Current group-average analysis suggests quantitative but not qualitative
cognitive differences between schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD). There is …

Social and nonsocial cognition in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia: relative levels of impairment

J Lee, L Altshuler, DC Glahn… - American Journal of …, 2013 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective This study aimed to determine the relative extent of impairment in social and
nonsocial cognitive domains in patients with bipolar disorder compared with schizophrenia …

Large-scale cognitive GWAS meta-analysis reveals tissue-specific neural expression and potential nootropic drug targets

M Lam, JW Trampush, J Yu, E Knowles, G Davies… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Here, we present a large (n= 107,207) genome-wide association study (GWAS) of general
cognitive ability (" g"), further enhanced by combining results with a large-scale GWAS of …