Abstract

GALINDO-SALOM, Martha Madeleine; RIOS CRUZ, Sonia Gisela; ORTIZ, Eliana  and  AVENDANO-PRIETO, Bertha Lucía. Characterization of executive functions in people with bipolar affective disorder bipolar affective disorder. Divers.: Perspect. Psicol. [online]. 2024, vol.20, n.1, pp.18-32.  Epub Jan 01, 2024. ISSN 1794-9998.  https://doi.org/10.15332/22563067.10217.

Neurocognitive deficits are part of both the etiology and consequences of bipolar affective disorder (BPD). The objective of this research was to characterize the executive functioning of a sample of 103 adults diagnosed with BAD in the euthymic phase. A descriptive and comparative cross- sectional study was carried out on the scores obtained in the BANFE-2 test. The description was made with the frequency distribution of neurocognitive performance by TAB diagnostic typologies and the comparison based on statistically significant differences (p < 0.05). Although the results obtained were heterogeneous, in some variables significant differences were found by diagnostic typologies; Of ten findings, in six, the type I group had better performance than the other groups in: planning processing speed, planning and visuospatial working memory, a situation that can be explained from the characteristics of this typology, which in euthymia can be faster and more functional if their condition is not more serious; Type II presented more precision in three planning variables, citing a better abstract attitude; Only in one variable of planning processing speed, the cyclothymic had a better score than type II. These findings are not conclusive, but they can be further explored as a possible indicator of the typologies at the level of their cognitive execution and to that extent adapt the interventions by bringing them closer to their clinical characteristics.

Keywords : executive functions; bipolar affective disorder; cognitive deficit; executive dysfunction.

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