Neural activity to intense positive versus negative stimuli can help differentiate bipolar disorder from unipolar major depressive disorder in depressed adolescents: A pilot fMRI study

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 277-284

  Diler, Rasim Somer ^a   de Almeida, Jorge Renner Cardoso ^a   Ladouceur, Cecile ^a   Birmaher, Boris ^a   Axelson, David ^a   Phillips, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Bipolar depression; Emotion processing; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Major depressive disorder

Indexed keywords

ARIPIPRAZOLE; CITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENTS; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; EMOTION PROCESSING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (FMRI); MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 84888304831     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2013.06.013     Document Type: Article

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