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. 2013 Apr 4;13:105. doi: 10.1186/1471-244X-13-105

Table 3.

Percentage of patients with cognitive impairment* for the total sample of 51 inpatients with therapy-resistant BD depression, BD I, and BD II on nine cognitive tasks from the MCCB, six domain scores and mean composite score, and IQ and change in IQ from the estimated premorbid level

Neurocognitive domain
Total sample
BD I
BD II
BD I vs. BD II
  Test n= 51 n= 19 n= 32 χ2 p
Speed of processing
43.1
63.2
31.2
4.9
0.041
  BACS–Symbol Coding
49.0
52.6
46.9
0.2
0.776
  Fluency
17.6
31.6
9.4
4.0
0.062
  TMT-A
45.1
63.2
34.4
4.0
0.080
Attention/Vigilance
36.4a
42.9
33.3
0.4
0.738
  CPT
 
 
 
 
 
Working memory
21.6
21.1
21.9
0.0
1.000
  Spatial Span
18.0b
26.3
12.9
1.4
0.273
  Letter-Number Span
25.5
31.6
21.9
0.6
0.515
Verbal learning
39.2
42.1
37.5
0.1
0.774
  HVLT-R
 
 
 
 
 
Visual learning
24.5c
38.9
16.1
3.2
0.094
  BVMT-R
 
 
 
 
 
Reasoning
30.0b
22.2
34.4
0.8
0.523
  Mazes
 
 
 
 
 
Mean composite score
31.4
42.1
25.0
1.6
0.228
IQ
5.9
15.8
0.0
5.4
0.047
  WASI
 
 
 
 
 
IQ decline (NART-WASI) ≥1.5 SD 15.2d 33.3 3.6 7.5 0.010

*Defined as at least 1.5 SD below the normal mean.

an = 44, bn = 50, cn = 49, dn = 46 due to missing data.