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Trial reportDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2013

Fronto-limbic function in unaffected offspring at familial risk for bipolar disorder during an emotional working memory paradigm.

Cecile D Ladouceur, Vaibhav A Diwadkar, Richard White, Jeremy Bass, Boris Birmaher, David A Axelson, Mary L Phillips

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Trial report in Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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45citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 107 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Transdiagnostic mapping of common and specific regional homogeneity alterations across affective and psychotic disorders.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Cecile D LadouceurDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. ladouceurcd@upmc.edu
Vaibhav A Diwadkar
Richard White
Jeremy Bass
Boris Birmaher
David A Axelson
Mary L Phillips
University of Pittsburgh · USWayne State University · US

Funding

Children of Bipolar Parents: A High Risk Follow Up Study (also known as Bipolar Offspring Study - BIOS)R01MH060952 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BIRMAHER, BORIS, PHILLIPS, MARY LOUISE · 2001 to 2020
$20.4M
Toward the Identification of Neurodevelopmental Risk Markers of Bipolar DisorderK01MH083001 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI LADOUCEUR, CECILE D. · 2008 to 2012
$731k
NIMH NIH HHS K01 MH083001NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH060952NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH60952
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evidence from neuroimaging studies indicate that individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) exhibit altered functioning of fronto-limbic systems implicated in voluntary emotion regulation. Few studies, however, have examined the extent to which unaffected youth at familial risk for BD exhibit such alterations. Using an fMRI emotional working memory paradigm, we investigated the functioning of fronto-limbic systems in fifteen healthy bipolar offspring (8-17 years old) with at least one parent diagnosed with BD (HBO), and 16 age-matched healthy control (HC) participants. Neural activity and functional connectivity analyses focused on a priori neural regions supporting emotion processing (amygdala and ventral striatum) and voluntary emotion regulation (ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)). Relative to HC, HBO exhibited greater right VLPFC (BA47) activation in response to positive emotional distracters and reduced VLPFC modulation of the amygdala to both the positive and negative emotional distracters; there were no group differences in connectivity for the neutral distracters. These findings suggest that alterations in the functioning of fronto-limbic systems implicated in voluntary emotion regulation are present in unaffected bipolar offspring. Future longitudinal studies are needed to determine the extent to which such alterations represent neurodevelopmental markers of risk for future onset of BD.

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Child of Impaired ParentsAdolescentBipolar DisorderChildCross-Sectional StudiesEmotionsFemaleGyrus CinguliHumansLongitudinal StudiesMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMemory, Short-TermNeural PathwaysPhotic StimulationPrefrontal Cortex

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PMID23590840
PMCPMC3676715
OpenAlexW2038136152

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