Emotional face processing in pediatric bipolar disorder: evidence for functional impairments in the fusiform gyrus

Perlman, Susan B., Fournier, Jay C., Bebko, Genna, Bertocci, Michele A., Hinze, Amanda K., Bonar, Lisa, Almeida, Jorge R.C., Versace, Amelia, Schirda, Claudiu, Travis, Michael, Gill, Mary Kay, Demeter, Christine, Diwadkar, Vaibhav A., Sunshine, Jeffrey L., Holland, Scott K., Kowatch, Robert A., Birmaher, Boris, Axelson, David, Horwitz, Sarah M., Arnold, L. Eugene, Fristad, Mary A., Youngstrom, Eric A., Findling, Robert L. and Phillips, Mary L. 2013. Emotional face processing in pediatric bipolar disorder: evidence for functional impairments in the fusiform gyrus. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 52 (12) , pp. 1314-25. 10.1016/j.jaac.2013.09.004

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OBJECTIVE: Pediatric bipolar disorder involves poor social functioning, but the neural mechanisms underlying these deficits are not well understood. Previous neuroimaging studies have found deficits in emotional face processing localized to emotional brain regions. However, few studies have examined dysfunction in other regions of the face processing circuit. This study assessed hypoactivation in key face processing regions of the brain in pediatric bipolar disorder. METHOD: Youth with a bipolar spectrum diagnosis (n = 20) were matched to a nonbipolar clinical group (n = 20), with similar demographics and comorbid diagnoses, and a healthy control group (n = 20). Youth participated in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning which employed a task-irrelevant emotion processing design in which processing of facial emotions was not germane to task performance. RESULTS: Hypoactivation, isolated to the fusiform gyrus, was found when viewing animated, emerging facial expressions of happiness, sadness, fearfulness, and especially anger in pediatric bipolar participants relative to matched clinical and healthy control groups. CONCLUSIONS: The results of the study imply that differences exist in visual regions of the brain's face processing system and are not solely isolated to emotional brain regions such as the amygdala. Findings are discussed in relation to facial emotion recognition and fusiform gyrus deficits previously reported in the autism literature. Behavioral interventions targeting attention to facial stimuli might be explored as possible treatments for bipolar disorder in youth.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0890-8567
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2015 11:57
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/76689

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