TY - BOOK AU - Osama Factar Garas AU - Akmal Moustafa Kamal , AU - Hoda Abdou Hussein , AU - Sanaa Ahmed Kamal , TI - Executive dysfunction in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder : : A comparative study / PY - 2014/// CY - Cairo : PB - Osama Factar Garas , KW - Bipolar disorder KW - Executive dysfunction KW - Schizophrenia N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Neuropsychiatry; Issued also as CD N2 - Executive function is a multifaceted construct involving various sub processors such as cognitive inhibition, set shifting or flexibility and monitoring. Schizophrenia is also considered a construct involving a variety of symptoms traditionally grouped into negative and positive symptoms. Negative and dys-executive symptoms seem to be more stable and more associated with prognosis than other dimensions of schizophrenia. On the other hand interactions between positive symptoms, mainly delusions, and a lack of cognitive flexibility have been mentioned to be associated UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -