Cognitive Dysfunction in Bipolar Disorder

Joseph F. Goldberg, M.D., is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, New York; and Director of the Affective Disorders Research Program at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut.Katherine E., Burdick, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx, New York; and Director of the Neurocognitive Assessment Unit in the Division of Psychiatry Research of The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, in Glen Oaks, New York.

• ContributorsForewordPrefaceChapter 1. Overview and introduction: dimensions of cognition and measures of cognitive functionChapter 2. Attentional and executive functioning in bipolar disorderChapter 3. Memory deficits associated with bipolar disorderChapter 4. The endophenotype concept: examples from neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies of bipolar disorderChapter 5. Impact of mood, anxiety, and psychotic symptoms on cognition in patients with bipolar disorderChapter 6. Improving psychotherapy practice and technique for bipolar disorder: lessons from cognitive neuroscienceChapter 7. Adverse cognitive effects of psychotropic medicationsChapter 8. Pharmacological strategies to enhance neurocognitive functionChapter 9. Cognitive dysfunction in children and adolescents with bipolar disorder: Relative contribution of bipolar disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderChapter 10. Cognition and functional outcome in bipolar disorderChapter 11. Cognition across the life span: Clinical implications for older adults with bipolar disorderChapter 12. Summary and assessment recommendations for practitionersIndex

This book succeeds in being a useful and comprehensive overview of cognitive dysfunction in bipolar disorder. The editors and authors have made a clear effort to make the material understandable and clinically relevant. It covers an area of study that has received relatively little attention until recently. For all of these reasons, I would highly recommend this book.