“…It has also been shown that patients with a history of psychosis, regardless of a diagnosis, are impaired on a variety of cognitive measures, such as executive functioning, verbal learning and memory, verbal fluency, control inference (Glahn et al, 2007;Martinez-Aran et al, 2008;Simonsen et al, 2011;Udal et al, 2012) and additionally, psychotic features in mood disorders have validity in terms of prognosis, treatment response and family history for psychiatric illness (Mazzarini et al, 2010;Souery et al, 2011;Schultze-Lutter et al, 2012). It has also been shown that psychotic symptoms in mood disorders are associated with higher number of hospitalizations (Jager et al, 2005), poorer response to medications (Coryell et al, 1984), increased recurrence (Tohen et al, 2003), greater symptom severity worse short-and long-term outcome (Coryell et al, 2001), longer duration of recovery (Geller et al, 2002) and overall greater functional impairment (Haro et al, 2006). Moreover, executive dysfunction in BPD patients was reported to be related to a history of psychosis in their families (Tabares-Seisdedos et al, 2003).…”