Background: Children with bipolar disorder (BD) or severe mood dysregulation (SMD) show
behavioural and neural deficits during facial emotion processing. In those with other
psychiatric disorders, such deficits have been associated with reduced attention to eye
regions while looking at faces. Methods: We examined gaze fixation patterns during a facial
emotion labelling task among children with pediatric BD and SMD and among healthy
controls. Participants viewed facial expressions with varying emotions (anger, fear, sadness …