Functional Remediation for Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is a severe, chronic and recurrent illness, that affects nearly the 5% of the population. Recent research point at the relevance and persistence of cognitive dysfunctions in bipolar patients even beyond the acute phases, although cognitive impairment has been classically associated with schizophrenia and not bipolar disorder. Current findings suggest that some intervention is needed in order to improve not only affective symptoms but also cognitive dysfunctions, so that patients could benefit from cognitive remediation techniques to improve cognitive impairment and the functional outcome. There is no previous research on the efficacy of cognitive remediation programs on bipolar disorder.