The impact of psychosis on brain anatomy in bipolar disorder: a structural MRI study

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a major psychiatric illness characterized by heterogeneous symptoms including psychotic features. Up until now, neuroimaging studies investigating cerebral morphology in patients with BD have underestimated the potential impact of psychosis on brain anatomy in BD patients. In this regard, psychotic and non-psychotic BD may represent biologically different subtypes of the disorder, being possibly associated with specific cerebral features.

Source: Journal of Affective Disorders - November 29, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: A. Carlo Altamura, Eleonora Maggioni, Taj Dhanoa, Valentina Ciappolino, Riccardo A. Paoli, Laura Cremaschi, Cecilia Prunas, Giulia Orsenigo, Elisabetta Caletti, Claudia M. Cinnante, Fabio M. Triulzi, Bernardo Dell'Osso, Lakshmi Yatham, Paolo Brambilla Tags: Research paper Source Type: research