Publications by authors named "Elvira Herreria"
Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an established comorbidity in Bipolar Disorder (BD), but little is known about the characteristics of psychological trauma beyond a PTSD diagnosis and differences in trauma symptoms between BD-I and BD-II.
Objective: (1) To present characteristics of a trauma-exposed BD sample; (2) to investigate prevalence and trauma symptom profile across BD-I and BD-II; (3) to assess the impact of a lifetime PTSD diagnosis vs. a history of trauma on BD course; and (4) to research the impacts of sexual and physical abuse.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to analyze how social cognition affects the overall functioning of euthymic bipolar patients along with other clinical and cognitive factors.
- Thirty-nine outpatients with bipolar disorder were divided into two groups based on their global functioning levels: high and low.
- Results indicated that the low-functioning group performed significantly worse in social cognition tasks and facial emotion recognition compared to the high-functioning group, suggesting social cognition is crucial for understanding the functional challenges faced by bipolar patients.