Manic morbidity and executive function impairment as determinants of long‐term psychosocial dysfunction in bipolar disorder

Objective In this study, we aimed to evaluate the role of cognitive performance and measures of clinical course—including both syndromal and subsyndromal symptomatology—as determinants of the functional outcome of patients with Bipolar Disorder (BD) during a mean follow‐up period of more than 4 years. Methods Seventy patients with euthymic BD completed a neurocognitive battery at study entry. Clinical course was assessed prospectively for a...