Impaired sustained attention in euthymic bipolar disorder patients and non-affected relatives: An fMRI study

Bipolar Disorders

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 764-779

  Sepede, Gianna ^a   De Berardis, Domenico ^b   Campanella, Daniela ^b   Perrucci, Mauro Gianni ^a   Ferretti, Antonio ^a   Serroni, Nicola ^b   Moschetta, Francesco Saverio ^b   Del Gratta, Cosimo ^a   Salerno, Rosa Maria ^a   Ferro, Filippo Maria ^a   Di Giannantonio, Massimo ^a   Onofrj, Marco ^a   Romani, Gian Luca ^a   Gambi, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b National Health Trust   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Euthymia; First degree relatives; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Insula; Sustained attention; Trait marker

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INSULA; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL BALANCE; RELATIVE; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SUSTAINED ATTENTION DEFICIT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; AWARENESS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; OXYGEN; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868144755     PISSN: 13985647     EISSN: 13995618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bdi.12007     Document Type: Article

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