The association between social skills deficits and family history of mood disorder in bipolar I disorder
AUTOR(ES)
Fernandes, Francy B.F., Rocca, Cristiana C., Gigante, Alexandre D., Dottori-Silva, Paola R., Gerchmann, Luciana, Rossini, Danielle, Sato, Rodrigo, Lafer, Beny, Nery, Fabiano G.
FONTE
Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr.
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
26/03/2018
RESUMO
Objective: To compare social skills and related executive functions among bipolar disorder (BD) patients with a family history of mood disorders (FHMD), BD patients with no FHMD and healthy control (HCs). Methods: We evaluated 20 euthymic patients with FHMD, 17 euthymic patients without FHMD, and 31 HCs using the Social Skills Inventory (SSI) and a neuropsychological battery evaluating executive function, inhibitory control, verbal fluency and estimated intelligence. Results: Both BD groups had lower SSI scores than controls. Scores for one subfactor of the social skills questionnaire, conversational skills and social performance, were significantly lower among patients with FHMD than among patients without FHMD (p = 0.019). Both groups of BD patients exhibited significant deficits in initiation/inhibition, but only BD patients with FHMD had deficits in verbal fluency, both compared to HC. There were no associations between social skills questionnaire scores and measures of cognitive function. Conclusion: Euthymic BD patients have lower social skills and executive function performance than HC. The presence of FHMD among BD patients is specifically associated with deficits in conversational and social performance skills, in addition to deficits in verbal fluency. Both characteristics might be associated with a common genetically determined pathophysiological substrate.
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