Previous neuroimaging studies have revealed frontal and temporal functional abnormalities
in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and a history of suicidal behavior …

Background Anxious depression is a serious mental disorder characterized by comorbidity
of anxiety and depression, and its symptoms are similar to those of non-anxious depression …

Abnormal emotional processing is involved in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder (BD)
and major depressive disorder (MDD). However, whether the neural mechanism underlying …

Background Caudal regions of the prefrontal cortex, including the dorsolateral (DLPFC) and
ventrolateral (VLPFC) prefrontal cortex, are involved in essential cognitive functions such as …

Background To identify bipolar disorder during the initial stages of a depressive episode has
always been a great clinical challenge. Patterns of functional brain activity may underlie the …

Background: It is important to understand the neural basis of functional impairments in
patients with bipolar disorder (BD) in order to be able to address the recovery. Recently …

Objective: Patients with major depressive disorder tend to exhibit poorer decision-making
capacity than the general population, but neurobiological evidence is lacking. Functional …

Objective. A serious issue in psychiatric practice is a lack of specific, objective biomarker to
assist clinicians in establishing differential diagnosis and improving individualized treatment …

Background Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an emerging neuroimaging
modality that provides a direct and quantitative assessment of cortical haemodynamic …

Background Bipolar depression (BD) is a unique, severe and prevalent mental illness that
shares many similarities in symptoms with unipolar depression (UD). Improving precision of …