ArticleThe American journal of psychiatry2016
Neural Correlates of Irritability in Disruptive Mood Dysregulation and Bipolar Disorders.
Article in The American journal of psychiatry, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03863288 (Dose-Response Relationship and Pharmacokinetics of Intranasal Oxytocin on Neural Impact in Youth With High Levels of Irritability), which is not on this map. Cited by 79 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Dose-Response Relationship and Pharmacokinetics of Intranasal Oxytocin on Neural Impact in Youth With High Levels of Irritability
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79 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 120 citations in OpenAlex.
- Annual Research Review: What processes are dysregulated among emotionally dysregulated youth? - a systematic review.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Task-based fMRI Studies in Youths With Irritability.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Diagnostic instruments for the assessment of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder: a systematic review of the literature.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Parent training for the treatment of irritability in children and adolescents: a multisite randomized controlled, 3-parallel-group, evaluator-blinded, superiority trial.BMC psychology · 2022Trial
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of Computerized Interpretation Bias Training for Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder: A Fast-Fail Study.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2022Trial
- Frontal lobe functioning during a simple response conflict task in first-episode psychosis and its relationship to treatment response.Brain imaging and behavior · 2019Trial
- An Exposure-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Youth with Severe Irritability: Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Trial
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- Advancing the measurement of psychotherapy outcomes for youth with irritability using in vivo ecological momentary assessment: an exploratory observational study.Child and adolescent mental health · 2026Observational
- Sensitivity and Bias in Face-Emotion Labeling: Replication and Extension to Youth With Irritability and Anxiety.JAACAP open · 2026Article
- Evaluating psychometric validity of ecological momentary assessment for youth irritability.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Treatment adherence, therapeutic alliance, and clinical outcomes during an exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for pediatric irritability.BMC psychiatry · 2025Observational
- Neural mechanisms of reward processing in preadolescent irritability: Insights from the ABCD study.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- The causal mediating effect of smoking on the relationship between irritability and bipolar disorder: A two-step Mendelian randomization study.Tobacco induced diseases · 2025Article
- Concurrent and longitudinal neurostructural correlates of irritability in children.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Article
- The correlation between brain structure characteristics and emotion regulation ability in children at high risk of autism spectrum disorder.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- An Expanded Conceptual Framework for Understanding Irritability in Childhood: The Role of Cognitive Control Processes.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Review
- Continuous remote monitoring of neurophysiologic Immersion accurately predicts mood.Frontiers in digital health · 2024Article
- Irritability in stroke: a protocol for a prospective study.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveBipolar disorder and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) are clinically and pathophysiologically distinct, yet irritability can be a clinical feature of both illnesses. The authors examine whether the neural mechanisms mediating irritability differ between bipolar disorder and DMDD, using a face emotion labeling paradigm because such labeling is deficient in both patient groups. The authors hypothesized that during face emotion labeling, irritability would be associated with dysfunctional activation in the amygdala and other temporal and prefrontal regions in both disorders, but that the nature of these associations would differ between DMDD and bipolar disorder.
methodDuring functional MRI acquisition, 71 youths (25 with DMDD, 24 with bipolar disorder, and 22 healthy youths) performed a labeling task with happy, fearful, and angry faces of varying emotional intensity.
resultsParticipants with DMDD and bipolar disorder showed similar levels of irritability and did not differ from each other or from healthy youths in face emotion labeling accuracy. Irritability correlated with amygdala activity across all intensities for all emotions in the DMDD group; such correlation was present in the bipolar disorder group only for fearful faces. In the ventral visual stream, associations between neural activity and irritability were found more consistently in the DMDD group than in the bipolar disorder group, especially in response to ambiguous angry faces.
conclusionsThese results suggest diagnostic specificity in the neural correlates of irritability, a symptom of both DMDD and bipolar disorder. Such evidence of distinct neural correlates suggests the need to evaluate different approaches to treating irritability in the two disorders.
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