Social dysfunction in bipolar disorder: pilot study.

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to assess the social skills of euthymic patients with bipolar disorder.

Methods: A group of 25 outpatients with bipolar disorder type I were evaluated in comparison with a group of 31 healthy volunteers who were matched in terms of level of education, age, sex and intelligence. Both groups were assessed using a self-report questionnaire, the Brazilian Inventario de Habilidades Sociais (IHS, Social Skills Inventory).

Verbal fluency dysfunction in euthymic bipolar patients: a controlled study.

Objective: To study the executive functioning in euthymic bipolar patients in comparison to healthy controls and to examine the relationship between neuropsychological deficits and clinical variables.

Methods: Twenty-five euthymic bipolar patients and 31 controls underwent a battery of executive tasks including mental flexibility, inhibitory control and verbal fluency tests.

Results: There were no significant differences between bipolar patients and controls in relation to mental flexibility and inhibitory control.

Clinical expression of obsessive-compulsive disorder in women with bipolar disorder.

Objective: To study clinical and psychopathological features of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in women with bipolar disorder (BD).

Methods: Fifteen outpatients with concurrent bipolar disorder I (80.0%) or II (20.