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Increased intrasubject variability in response time in youths with bipolar disorder and at-risk family members.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - 1 Jun 2009
Brotman Melissa A, Rooney Melissa H, Skup Martha, Pine Daniel S, Leibenluft Ellen
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Deficits in sustained attention may represent an endophenotype for bipolar disorder (BD). One heritable measure of sustained attention is intrasubject variability in response time (ISV-RT). We tested the hypothesis that, compared with controls, both youths with BD and those at familial risk for the disorder would have increased ISV-RT. METHOD: Subjects were 28 patients with BD, 26 unaffected youths...
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