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Visual memory dysfunction as a neurocognitive endophenotype in bipolar disorder patients and their unaffected relatives. Evidence from a 5-year follow-up Valencia study.
Document Type
Academic Journal
Author
Correa-Ghisays P; Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain; Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; INCLIVA Health Research Institute, Valencia, Spain; TMAP Unidad de evaluación en autonomía personal, dependencia y trastornos mentales graves, Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.; Sánchez-Ortí JV; Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; TMAP Unidad de evaluación en autonomía personal, dependencia y trastornos mentales graves, Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.; Ayesa-Arriola R; Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain; University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla. Department of Psychiatry, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain; Department of Psychiatry, IDIVAL, School of Medicine, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain.; Setién-Suero E; Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain; University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla. Department of Psychiatry, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain; Department of Psychiatry, IDIVAL, School of Medicine, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain.; Balanzá-Martínez V; Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain; TMAP Unidad de evaluación en autonomía personal, dependencia y trastornos mentales graves, Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; Teaching Unit of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.; Selva-Vera G; Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain; INCLIVA Health Research Institute, Valencia, Spain; TMAP Unidad de evaluación en autonomía personal, dependencia y trastornos mentales graves, Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; Teaching Unit of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.; Ruiz-Ruiz JC; Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.; Vila-Francés J; IDAL - Intelligent Data Analysis Laboratory, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.; Martinez-Aran A; Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain; Bipolar Disorders Unit, Neurosciences Institute, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.; Vivas-Lalinde J; Departament of Psychiatry, Mental Health Service, Manises, Valencia, Spain.; Conforte-Molina C; Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.; San-Martín C; TMAP Unidad de evaluación en autonomía personal, dependencia y trastornos mentales graves, Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; Departament of Physioterapiy, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.; Martínez-Pérez C; Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.; Fuentes-Durá I; Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.; Crespo-Facorro B; Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain; Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.; Tabarés-Seisdedos R; Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain; INCLIVA Health Research Institute, Valencia, Spain; TMAP Unidad de evaluación en autonomía personal, dependencia y trastornos mentales graves, Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; Teaching Unit of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Electronic address: Rafael.Tabares@uv.es.
Source
Publisher: Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press Country of Publication: Netherlands NLM ID: 7906073 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1573-2517 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 01650327 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Affect Disord Subsets: MEDLINE
Subject
Language
English
Abstract
Background: Scarce research has focused on Visual Memory (VM) deficits as a possible neurocognitive endophenotype of bipolar disorder (BD). The main aim of this longitudinal, family study with healthy controls was to explore whether VM dysfunction represents a neurocognitive endophenotype of BD.
Methods: Assessment of VM by Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCF) was carried out on a sample of 317 subjects, including 140 patients with BD, 60 unaffected first-degree relatives (BD-Rel), and 117 genetically-unrelated healthy controls (HC), on three occasions over a 5-year period (T1, T2, and T3). BD-Rel group scores were analyzed only at T1 and T2.
Results: Performance of BD patients was significantly worse than the HC group (p < 0.01). Performance of BD-Rel was also significantly different from HC scores at T1 (p < 0.01) and T2 (p = 0.05), and showed an intermediate profile between the BD and HC groups. Only among BD patients, there were significant differences according to sex, with females performing worse than males (p = 0.03). Regarding other variables, education represented significant differences only in average scores of BD-Rel group (p = 0.01).
Limitations: Important attrition in BD-Rel group over time was detected, which precluded analysis at T3.
Conclusions: BD patients show significant deficits in VM that remain stable over time, even after controlling sociodemographic and clinical variables. Unaffected relatives also show stable deficits in VM. Accordingly, the deficit in VM could be considered a potential endophenotype of BD, which in turn may be useful as a predictor of the evolution of the disease. Further studies are needed to confirm these findings.
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