My abnormal psych professor insists that mood disorders do not include severe cognitive deficits. She has done research that showed that bipolar patients scored almost as well as healthy controls on a working memory task.

My personal experience conflicts with this, however. Ever since a serious depression my senior year of high school, I have been unable to "get my brain back". I find it hard to remember things (and I used to have a great memory). Sometimes I do not understand concepts presented in my college classes; my GPA is a 3.5, and I had a 3.9 in high school, before the one severe depression mentioned earlier.

Does anyone else have cognitive symptoms that interfere with their everyday lives? Do you attribute them to your bipolar disorder?