Psychiatry Research
Volume 136, Issue 1 , Pages 43-50 , 15 July 2005

Assessing cognitive deficits in bipolar disorder: Are self-reports valid?

  • Katherine E. Burdick

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, 75–59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 718 470 8167; fax: +1 718 343 1659.
    • At the time of writing, affiliation was Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
    • ,
  • Carrie J. Endick

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
    • At the time of writing, affiliation was Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Bipolar Disorders Research Clinic, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
    • ,
  • Joseph F. Goldberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, 75–59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
    • At the time of writing, affiliation was Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Bipolar Disorders Research Clinic, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.

Received 27 April 2004 ,Revised 11 November 2004 ,Accepted 3 December 2004.

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☆ Presented, in part, at the 154th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New Orleans, LA, USA, May 10–14, 2001.

PII: S0165-1781(05)00153-8

doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2004.12.009

Psychiatry Research
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