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ArticleTheScientificWorldJournal2014

Sex dependence of cognitive functions in bipolar disorder.

Aleksandra Suwalska, Dorota Łojko

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Article in TheScientificWorldJournal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Sex differences in psychosocial functioning and neurocognition in bipolar disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aleksandra SuwalskaDepartment of Adult Psychiatry, University of Medical Sciences, 60-572 Poznań, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-5759-5151
Dorota ŁojkoDepartment of Adult Psychiatry, University of Medical Sciences, 60-572 Poznań, Poland.
Poznan University of Medical Sciences · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to assess the performance of lithium treated euthymic bipolar patients in tests measuring spatial working memory (SWM), planning, and verbal fluency and to delineate the influence of gender on cognitive functioning. Fifty-nine euthymic bipolar patients, treated with lithium carbonate for at least 5 yr, were studied. Patients and controls underwent a neuropsychological assessment. Bipolar patients had significantly worse results than the healthy controls in the spatial memory and planning as well as verbal fluency tests. We detected a gender-related imbalance in the SWM results. Deficits in SWM were observed in male-only comparisons but not in female-only comparisons. The SWM scores were significantly poorer in male patients than in male controls. In female-only comparisons, female patients did not have significantly poorer SWM results in any category than their controls. Bipolar women scored worse in some other tests. The present study points to the different patterns of neuropsychological disturbances in female and male patients and suggests that sex-dependent differences should be taken into account in order to tailor the therapeutic intervention aimed at the improvement of cognitive functions.

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CognitionSex FactorsAdultBipolar DisorderFemaleHumansLithium CompoundsMaleMemory, Short-TermMiddle AgedNeuropsychological TestsLithium Compounds

Identifiers

PMID24616627
PMCPMC3926268
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