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Evidence for deficit in tasks of ventral, but not dorsal, prefrontal executive function as an endophenotypic marker for bipolar disorder.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Nov 2005
Frangou Sophia, Haldane Morgan, Roddy Darren, Kumari Veena
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Trait functional abnormalities in BD patients have only been reported in the ventral prefrontal cortex (VPFC). We examined whether deficits in VPFC-related inhibitory processes, but not dorsal prefrontal (DPFC) based executive functions, represent an endophenotypic marker for bipolar disorder I (BDI). METHODS: We used the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), commonly associated with DPFC function, and...
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