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Risk for bipolar disorder is associated with face-processing deficits across emotions.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - 1 Dec 2008
Brotman Melissa A, Skup Martha, Rich Brendan A, Blair Karina S, Pine Daniel S, Blair James R, Leibenluft Ellen
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OBJECTIVE: Youths with euthymic bipolar disorder (BD) have a deficit in face-emotion labeling that is present across multiple emotions. Recent research indicates that youths at familial risk for BD, but without a history of mood disorder, also have a deficit in face-emotion labeling, suggesting that such impairments may be an endophenotype for BD. It is unclear whether this deficit in at-risk youths is present...
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