Toward a functional neuroanatomical signature of bipolar disorder: Quantitative evidence from the neuroimaging literature

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 71-79

  Kupferschmidt, David A ^a   Zakzanis, Konstantine K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Depression; FMRI; Mania; Meta analysis; Mood; PET

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CUNEUS; DISEASE DURATION; EFFECT SIZE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENDER; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LINGUAL GYRUS; MEMORY; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MOOD; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL GYRUS;

ADULT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959769525     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2011.02.011     Document Type: Review

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