What is it about?
Long-term cortisol variations do not seem to play a role in the well-known association between neuro cognitive impairment and bipolar one disorder, since we did not find cortisol variations using a new validated specimen for measuring long-term cortisol levels in patients without symptoms which might be also explain the presence of neuro cognitive impairment in these patients.
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Why is it important?
Because other factors, such as the use of psychotropics, among others may be investigated in order to explain the cause of this association.
Perspectives
I truly believe that only new validated specimen for measuring long-term cortisol values, such as hair and fingernail may provide the answer for a large number of doubts that we currently have about the role that cortisol variations may play in Affective Disorders.
Andrés Herane Vives
King's College London
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This page is a summary of: Cortisol levels in fingernails, neurocognitive performance and clinical variables in euthymic bipolar I disorder, The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, March 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/15622975.2017.1298838.
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