Cognitive heterogeneity is a key predictor of differential functional outcome in patients with bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a complex illness with variability at the level of symptom presentation, clinical course, cognitive capacity, and everyday function. Cognition is a key predictor of functional disability in BD, however, much remains unknown about the development and presentation of cognitive dysfunction in BD. Studies have shown that 30-50% of affectively stable people with BD are indistinguishable from healthy individuals in terms of...