Altered amygdala-prefrontal response to facial emotion in offspring of parents with bipolar disorder

Brain

Volumn 138, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2777-2790

  Manelis, Anna ^a   Ladouceur, Cecile D ^a   Graur, Simona ^a   Monk, Kelly ^a   Bonar, Lisa K ^a   Hickey, Mary Beth ^a   Dwojak, Amanda C ^a   Axelson, David ^b   Goldstein, Benjamin I ^c   Goldstein, Tina R ^a   Bebko, Genna ^a   Bertocci, Michele A ^a   Hafeman, Danella M ^a   Gill, Mary Kay ^a   Birmaher, Boris ^a   Phillips, Mary L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

biological markers; emotion processing; emotion regulation; functional MRI; risk of bipolar disorder; youth offspring of parents with bipolar disorder

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHILD; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; PARENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SADNESS; VENTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALA; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PARENTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 84940783201     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awv176     Document Type: Article

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