High educational performance is a distinctive feature of bipolar disorder; a study on cognition in bipolar disorder schizophrenia patients relatives and controls

摘要

BackgroundSchizophrenia is associated with lower intelligence and poor educational performance relative to the general population. This is, to a lesser degree, also found in first-degree relatives of schizophrenia patients. It is unclear whether bipolar disorder I (BD-I) patients and their relatives have similar lower intellectual and educational performance as that observed in schizophrenia.