The comparison of medical therapy and cognitive-behavior-medical therapy on the memory positive bias of bipolar patients in Isfahan city

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1 University of Piam Noor

2 Psychiatric Institute of Tehran

Abstract

  The aim of this research was to compare the effects of two kinds of therapy two kind of therapy, medical therapy, cognitive-behvior-medical therapy on memory positive bias of bipolar patients. 100 bipolar patiens that had not taken any therapies, and were in depression phase, were choosen. 3 groups in a simple random way were choosen, with 15 persons in each group. The first group was control, the second group took just medical therapy and the third group took cognitive-behavior-medical therapy. Results of the analysis covariance showed that the mean of memory positive bias bipolare patients in cognitive-behvier-medical therapy group was significantly more than that of medicl therapy group (p

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