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WORLD JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 249-260Publisher
INFORMA HEALTHCARE
DOI: 10.3109/15622975.2014.1000373
Keywords
bipolar I disorder; hippocampus; verbal memory; neuropsychological tests; MRI
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- Astrazeneca Canada
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Objectives. Verbal memory (VM) impairment is a trait feature of bipolar I disorder (BDI) that is present at illness onset and associated with functional outcome. However, little is known about the morphological abnormalities underlying this deficit early in the disease course. This study examined the neurobiological correlates of VM impairment in euthymic newly diagnosed patients, with attention to frontal and medial temporal (MT) structures known to contribute to VM. Methods. Euthymic patients with BDI recently recovered from their first episode of mania (n = 42) were compared with healthy subjects (n = 37) using measures of the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT-II) associated with frontal and MT functioning. A subset of participants had 3T MRI scan (n = 31 patient group, n = 30 healthy subject group). Hippocampal and prefrontal volumes were analyzed using FreeSurfer 5.1 and correlated with their corresponding CVLT-II subscores. Results. Patients showed decreased performance in total learning as well as short and long delay verbal recall. Consistent with MT dysfunction, they also showed deficits in recognition discriminability and learning slope. In the patient group only, left hippocampal volumes were negatively correlated with these measures. Conclusions. These results suggest that anomalous MT functioning is involved with VM impairment early in the course of BDI.
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