Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 4 , Pages 335-339 , July 2008

Relationship between insight and neurocognition in patients with bipolar I disorder in remission

  • Cheng-Fang Yen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan
    • Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chung-Ping Cheng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology and Research Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning, National Chengchi University, Taipei City 116, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chih-Hung Ko

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan
    • Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ju-Yu Yen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan
    • Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan
    • Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 812, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chi-Fen Huang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Cheng-Sheng Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan
    • Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan
    • Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 807, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan. Tel.: +886 7 3121101x6822; fax: +886 7 3134761.

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2007.12.006

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 4 , Pages 335-339 , July 2008

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