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Increased medial orbitofrontal and amygdala activation: evidence for a systems-level endophenotype of bipolar I disorder.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Mar 2012
Linke Julia, King Andrea Victoria, Rietschel Marcella, Strohmaier Jana, Hennerici Michael, Gass Achim, Meyer-Lindenberg Andreas, Wessa Michèle
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OBJECTIVE: Bipolar I disorder is highly heritable, but endophenotypes of the disorder mediating genetic risk are only beginning to be defined. The authors investigate state- and trait-related neural mechanisms related to motivation in euthymic bipolar patients and unaffected first-degree relatives of bipolar patients to define the status of motivational processing as a neural systems-level endophenotype. METHOD:...
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