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. 2021 Mar 19;11(3):389.
doi: 10.3390/brainsci11030389.

Neurocognitive Impairment in Severe Mental Illness. Comparative study with Spanish Speaking Patients

Gabriel G De la Torre  1 , Sandra Doval  2   3 , David López-Sanz  2   4 , Manuel García-Sedeño  1 , Miguel A Ramallo  1 , Macarena Bernal  5 , Sara González-Torre  1
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Neurocognitive Impairment in Severe Mental Illness. Comparative study with Spanish Speaking Patients

Gabriel G De la Torre et al. Brain Sci. .

Abstract

Background: Serious mental illness (SMI) represents a category of psychiatric disorders characterized by specific difficulties of personal and social functioning, derived from suffering severe and persistent mental health problems.

Aims: We wanted to look into differences in cognitive performance among different SMI patients.

Methods: Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) screening was applied in one sample of SMI patients (n = 149) and another of healthy comparison participants (n = 35). Within the SMI sample, three different subsamples were formed: one with 97 patients with schizophrenia, a second with 29 patients with mood disorders, and a third with 23 patients with personality disorder. We performed a comparative study within and between groups.

Results: Analysis of covariance was performed. Significant differences were found for cognitive functioning including attention and memory.

Conclusions: RBANS can be recommended for the detection of neurocognitive deficits in psychiatric disorders, especially in Schizophrenia.

Keywords: Spanish; memory; mental health; neurocognitive; neuropsychology.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declared no potential conflict of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
PD: Borderline Personality Disorder; M: Mood Disorder; SQ: Schizophrenia. Significant confidence intervals after multiple comparison correction are shown in these figures. Black bold lines intervals represent those comparison between control group and pathological group that reminds significant, whereas grey ones, represent those in which there are not significant differences. The middle point shows the mean difference of intervals.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Boxplot showing total performance of each group in Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) total score.
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