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Reduced amygdalar gray matter volume in familial pediatric bipolar disorder.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - 1 Jun 2005
Chang Kiki, Karchemskiy Asya, Barnea-Goraly Naama, Garrett Amy, Simeonova Diana Iorgova, Reiss Allan
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Subcortical limbic structures have been proposed to be involved in the pathophysiology of adult and pediatric bipolar disorder (BD). We sought to study morphometric characteristics of these structures in pediatric subjects with familial BD compared with healthy controls. METHOD: Twenty children and adolescents with BD I (mean age = 14.6 years, four females) and 20 healthy age, gender, and IQ-matched...
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