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A genome-wide association study of amygdala activation in youths with and without bipolar disorder.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - 1 Jan 2010
Liu Xinmin, Akula Nirmala, Skup Martha, Brotman Melissa A, Leibenluft Ellen, McMahon Francis J
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OBJECTIVE: Functional magnetic resonance imaging is commonly used to characterize brain activity underlying a variety of psychiatric disorders. A previous functional magnetic resonance imaging study found that amygdala activation during a face-processing task differed between pediatric patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and healthy controls. We undertook a genome-wide association study to explore the genetic...
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