Discourse abilities in euthymic elderly patients with bipolar disorder: a preliminary study.

Maria Gabriela Valeriano Renné Alegria Orestes Vicente Forlenza Marcela Lima Silagi

Published in: Dementia & neuropsychologia (2023)

BD patients presented minimal changes in the descriptive discourse task. The BD group produced more cohesion errors than the control group in the oral (p=0.016) and written discourse (p=0.011); also, the BD group produced fewer thematic units than controls in the oral discourse (p=0.027).

Keyphrases

bipolar disorder
end stage renal disease
major depressive disorder
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
emergency department
patient reported outcomes
patient reported