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EDITORIAL article

Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Mood Disorders
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1567775
This article is part of the Research Topic Bipolar Disorder and Cognition: Cognitive Decline and Dementia View all 7 articles

Editorial: Bipolar Disorder and Cognition: Cognitive Decline and Dementia

Provisionally accepted
Hirofumi Hirakawa Hirofumi Hirakawa 1*Hikaru Hori Hikaru Hori 2Takeshi Terao Takeshi Terao 1
  • 1 Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Japan
  • 2 Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan

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    Bipolar disorder (BD) is characterized by recurrent episodes of depression and mania/hypomania. 27There is scientific evidence supporting the fact that BD often show cognitive decline during mood 28 episodes and even during the euthymic state, and the cognitive decline may develop dementia in 29 some patients. Although our initial questions 1) Why do people diagnosed with bipolar disorder 30 suffer from cognitive decline that leads to dementia?, 2) Which type (e.g., Bipolar I or II) of bipolar 31 disorder is likely to develop dementia?, 3) What factors (e.g., number of recurrences, drugs such as 32 lithium) are likely to develop or protect against dementia?, 4) What genetic factors are associated 33 with the links between bipolar disorder, cognitive decline, and dementia?, 5) Which type of dementia 34 is likely to develop in people with bipolar disorder?) cannot be sufficiently the onset of dementia in BD, along with preventive treatments, leading to the accumulation of 106 scientific evidence and its application in clinical practice. 107 108

    Keywords: Bipolar Disorder, Dementia, Cognition, cognitive decline, Mood disorder

    Received: 28 Jan 2025; Accepted: 03 Feb 2025.

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    * Correspondence: Hirofumi Hirakawa, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Japan

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