Neural circuitry of masked emotional face processing in youth with bipolar disorder, severe mood dysregulation, and healthy volunteers

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages 110-120

  Thomas, Laura A ^a,b   Brotman, Melissa A ^a   Bones, Brian L ^a   Chen, Gang ^a   Rosen, Brooke H ^a   Pine, Daniel S ^a   Leibenluft, Ellen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Affective priming; Backwards masking; Bipolar disorder; Functional neuroimaging; Mood disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANGRY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEARFUL; FEMALE; HAPPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; MOOD DISORDER; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENCE; AFFECTIVE PRIMING; BACKWARDS MASKING; BIPOLAR DISORDER; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; MOOD DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANGER; AWARENESS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCCIPITAL LOBE;

EID: 84897107773     PISSN: 18789293     EISSN: 18789307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2013.09.007     Document Type: Article

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