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While cognitive impairment is a recognized feature of schizophrenia, its presence in bipolar affective disorder is currently an area of investigation. The individual who are suffering from the bipolar affective disorder they exhibit a wide range of cognitive deficit including neuropsychological and cognitive deficit. The prime objective was to find out the cognitive dysfunction among tribal patients of depression. Total 100 patients of Depression were constituted the sample for the study, in which 50 were tribal and rest 50 were non tribal. Sample were collected from the Psychiatric Unit of Sadar Hospital (PMCH) Medininagar, Jharkhand through judgmental sampling. Tools used for the study were Socio demographic and clinical data sheet, Beck Depression Inventory (Hindi version), PGI Battery for Brain Dysfunction. On socio demographic variable religious affiliation emerge as the sole factor showing significant differences between the study groups. On clinical characteristics of the sample no factor reveals any notable discrepancies between the tribal and non-tribal group. Tribal and non-tribal depressive patients are significantly differed on the Brain dysfunction sub -scale such as memory scale (t =4.71 p> .01), verbal intelligence quotient (t = 5.15, p > .01), Bender Gestalt test (t = 3.8, p >.01) and dysfunction rating score (t =2.10, p > .01). It showed that tribal patient showed more dysfunction in the area of memory functioning, verbal intellectual functioning task, visuo- motor coordination task and total dysfunction.