Backgrounds The association between systemic inflammation, executive dysfunction, and
gray matter (GM) volume difference in first-episode affective disorders, including bipolar and …

Patients with bipolar disorder (BD) show alterations in both gray matter volume (GMV) and
white matter (WM) integrity compared with healthy controls (HC). However, it remains …

Background By calculating cortical thickness (CT) and cortical structural covariance (SC), we
aimed to investigate cortical morphology and cortical inter-regional correlation alterations in …

Objectives Vascular‐brain associations are well established in adults but neglected in youth
and psychiatric populations, who are at greater cardiovascular risk. We therefore examined …

Background Growing evidence suggests the presence of white matter (WM) alterations in
bipolar disorder (BD). In this study we aimed to investigate the state of WM structures, in …

Background: It has been argued that unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar
disorder (BD) exist on a continuous spectrum, given their overlapping symptomatology and …

Abstracts Background The symptoms of pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD)-I and PBD-II differ,
but accurate identification at an early stage is difficult and may prevent effective treatment of …

While the existence of bipolar disorder in early adolescence is becoming more widely
accepted, the degree of manifestation in childhood is still unclear. This thesis summarizes …

Bipolar disorder (BD) is recognized by the American Heart Association as a condition that
predisposes youth to early-onset cardiovascular disease. The magnitude of this prematurity …

The brain structural and functional impairment in affective and cognitive circuits has been
detected in bipolar disorder (BD) patients; however the specific neuroimaging mechanism of …