Research Article
Sex Dependence of Cognitive Functions in Bipolar Disorder
Table 2
Group differences in cognitive performance (values expressed as means and standard deviations shown in brackets).
| Test | Patients | Controls | Statistics |
| SSP span length | 4.9 (1.1) | 5.4 (1.1) | | SSP total errors | 12.6 (5.2) | 12.1 (5.3) | NS | SWM strategy | 37.3 (4.3) | 34.9 (5.1) | | SWM within errors | 4.8 (5.4) | 3.4 (4.2) | NS | SWM between errors | 46.5 (19.8) | 35.1 (19.8) | | SOC mean initial thinking time (5 moves) | 11497.6 (11.849.0) | 8816.8 (5717.0) | | SOC mean subsequent thinking time (5 moves) | 3636.1 (2472.2) | 3270.0 (3323.9) | NS | SOC problems solved in minimum moves | 7.6 (1.6) | 7.5 (1.7) | NS | Semantic fluency (number of words) | 41.2 (8.6) | 49.1 (8.9) | | Phonemic fluency (number of words) | 28.7 (8.7) | 36.4 (14.6) | | TMT A (time (sec)) | 44.4 (17.5) | 34.9 (10) | | TMT B (time (sec)) | 113.9 (46.8) | 81.9 (43.6) | |
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