Quality of Life in Bipolar Disorder

Abstract:10.1007/978-0-387-78665-0_5203 (BD) is a complex clinical syndrome where patients alternate episodes of mania and depression with intervals of euthymia. In addition, BD has been recently shown to induce cognitive and functioning impairment that may worsen with cumulative episodes. Such new findings brought to the field the need of assessing a more general appraisal of patients about the course of their illness. The construct of …