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ArticleBiological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging2016

Elucidating neural network functional connectivity abnormalities in bipolar disorder: toward a harmonized methodological approach.

Henry W Chase, Mary L Phillips

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Article in Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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43citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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43 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Aberrant cortico-striato-limbic functional connectivity to alcohol cues in co-occurring bipolar disorder and alcohol use disorder.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Henry W ChaseDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA.
Mary L PhillipsDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA.
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Reward, impulsive sensation seeking and emotional dysregulation: neural mechanisms underlying risk for bipolar disorder in young adultsR37MH100041 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Mary Louise Phillips · 2019 to 2026
$5.8M
Reward, pathophysiologic dimensions and psychological distress in young adultsR01MH100041 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI PHILLIPS, MARY LOUISE · 2014 to 2018
$3.1M
Toward the identification of biomarkers of bipolar disorderR01MH076971 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI PHILLIPS, MARY LOUISE · 2007 to 2011
$2.1M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH076971NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH100041NIMH NIH HHS R37 MH100041
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bipolar disorder (BD), a mood disorder characterized by emotional lability and dysregulation, is associated with alterations in functional connectivity, particularly as assessed using functional MRI. Here, we provide an overview of the extant literature, and themes that have emerged within it. We identified published research describing functional connectivity in BD using PubMed and follow-up searches. The most consistent evidence favors abnormally heightened functional connectivity between the amygdala and the lateral regions of the ventral prefrontal cortex (PFC), both during rest or emotional processing. Altered interactions between the amygdala and more medial PFC regions have been implicated in BD, but are less consistently related to core symptoms and are sometimes associated with mood state or psychosis. Interactions between medial and lateral ventral PFC have also been reported to be altered in BD, and may mediate estimates of amygdala/vlPFC connectivity. We also describe other themes, including an emerging literature examining reward circuitry, which has highlighted abnormal functional interactions between the ventral striatum and medial prefrontal cortex, as well as the advent of examining global network abnormalities in BD. Functional connectivity studies in BD have established altered interactions between PFC and the amygdala. To address the inconsistencies in the literature, we suggest avenues for the adoption of large scale, and network-based analysis of connectivity, the integration of structural connectivity and the acknowledgement of dynamic and context-related shifts in functional connectivity as a means of clarifying the abnormal neural circuitry in the disorder.

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amygdalaBipolar disorderdepressionfunctional connectivityglobal networksprefrontal cortex

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PMID27453953
PMCPMC4956344
OpenAlexW2270977971

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