Page No: 294-303
Chandrima M Mukherjee K. Rangasawami
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Sweekar Rehabilitation Institute for
Handicapped (SRIH), Hyderabad
Affective disorders have been associated with fl uctuations in mood and emotions.
However, recent research found that besides mood symptoms, cognitive functions have
been impacted as well. These impairments continue well into remission. The cognitive
functions that have been found to be impaired in the mood states and in the euthymic
state are attention, executive functions and learning & memory. The objective of this
study was to compare the mood states on these cognitive functions that have been
uniformly implicated in previous literature. A cross-sectional design was used for the
phenotype comparison in a sample of 60 affective disorder patients and the ‘t’ values
were calculated for the same. Mood states differed with each other in degree and nature
of performance in neuropsychological tests