Bipolar disorder (BD) is a prevalent recurrent and chronic mental disease, clinically characterized by the occurrence of active phases of illness, mania and depression, alternated to asymptomatic periods of euthymia. Considering the complex clinical presentation of BD, our work aimed to investigate the neurobiological underpinning of the...
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May 27, 2019 (v1)PublicationUploaded on: October 11, 2023
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2015 (v1)Publication
It has been frequently reported that brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plays an important role in the pathophysiology of major depressive disorder (MDD). Objective of the study was to investigate BDNF levels variations in MDD patients during antidepressant treatment with duloxetine. 30 MDD patients and 32 healthy controls were assessed...
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2016 (v1)Publication
Depressive and manic phases in bipolar disorder show opposite constellations of affective, cognitive, and psychomotor symptoms. At a neural level, these may be related to topographical disbalance between large-scale networks, such as the default mode network (DMN) and sensorimotor network (SMN). We investigated topographical patterns of...
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2016 (v1)Publication
Background In recent years, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies have detected subtle microstructural abnormalities of white matter (WM) in type I bipolar disorder (BD). However, WM alterations in the different phases of BD remain to be explored. The aims of this study is to investigate the WM alterations in the various phases of illness and...
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2016 (v1)Publication
Objective: The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between structural connectivity (SC) and functional connectivity (FC) in the cingulum in bipolar disorder (BD) and its various phases. Method: We combined resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging and probabilistic tractographic diffusion tensor imaging to...
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2015 (v1)Publication
Introduction: The cortical midline structures seem to be involved in the modulation of different resting state networks, such as the default mode network (DMN) and salience network (SN). Alterations in these systems, in particular in the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex (PACC), seem to play a central role in bipolar disorder (BD). However,...
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