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Preliminary evidence for medication effects on functional abnormalities in the amygdala and anterior cingulate in bipolar disorderHilary P Blumberg
Mood Disorders Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 300 George Street, Suite 901, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 183:308-13. 2005..Abnormal amygdala and frontocortical responses to emotional stimuli are implicated in bipolar disorder (BD) and have been proposed as potential treatment targets...
A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of bipolar disorder: state- and trait-related dysfunction in ventral prefrontal corticesHilary P Blumberg
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:601-9. 2003..We sought to characterize state- and trait-related functional impairment in frontal systems in bipolar disorder...
Frontostriatal abnormalities in adolescents with bipolar disorder: preliminary observations from functional MRIHilary P Blumberg
Department of Psychiatry and Diagnostic Radiology and the Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn, 06516, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:1345-7. 2003..This study investigated whether the functional abnormalities in prefrontal systems observed in adult bipolar disorder are manifested in adolescents with this illness...
Dimensions in the development of bipolar disorderHilary P Blumberg
Mood Disorders Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, REAP Depression Center, West Haven VA CT Healthcare System, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Biol Psychiatry 62:104-6. 2007
Age, rapid-cycling, and pharmacotherapy effects on ventral prefrontal cortex in bipolar disorder: a cross-sectional studyHilary P Blumberg
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
Biol Psychiatry 59:611-8. 2006..However, the developmental trajectory of VPFC morphological abnormalities in BD is unknown. This study investigated potential age-dependent volume abnormalities in VPFC in BD...
Amygdala and hippocampal volumes in adolescents and adults with bipolar disorderHilary P Blumberg
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:1201-8. 2003..Appreciation of whether volumetric abnormalities are early features of BD or whether the abnormalities represent neurodegenerative changes associated with illness duration is limited by the paucity of data in juvenile samples...
Significance of adolescent neurodevelopment for the neural circuitry of bipolar disorderHilary P Blumberg
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, VA Depression Research Center REAP, VA Connecticut Healthcare System 116 A, 950 Campbell Avenue, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1021:376-83. 2004..This potential neurodevelopmental model for BD could have important implications for the recognition of early signs of the disorder and for age-specific treatment strategies...
Preliminary evidence for persistent abnormalities in amygdala volumes in adolescents and young adults with bipolar disorderHilary P Blumberg
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Bipolar Disord 7:570-6. 2005..Here we use a within-subject longitudinal design to investigate whether amygdala volume abnormalities persist in adolescents and young adults with BD over a time interval of approximately 2 years...
Increased peripheral blood expression of electron transport chain genes in bipolar depressionRobert D Beech
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 300 George Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Bipolar Disord 12:813-24. 2010..To identify specific genetic pathways showing altered expression in peripheral blood of depressed subjects with bipolar disorder (BPD)...
Olfactocentric paralimbic cortex morphology in adolescents with bipolar disorderFei Wang
Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Brain 134:2005-12. 2011....
CHRM2 gene predisposes to alcohol dependence, drug dependence and affective disorders: results from an extended case-control structured association studyXingguang Luo
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Hum Mol Genet 14:2421-34. 2005..In addition, a specific diplotype might inversely affect risk for AD and DD and risk for affective disorders...
Amygdala hyperreactivity in borderline personality disorder: implications for emotional dysregulationNelson H Donegan
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8098, USA
Biol Psychiatry 54:1284-93. 2003....
The interaction of emotional and cognitive neural systems in emotionally guided response inhibitionKeith M Shafritz
Psychology Department, Drew University, Madison, NJ 07940, USA
Neuroimage 31:468-75. 2006..These findings suggest that inhibition within an emotional context recruits a distinct set of brain regions that includes areas beyond those normally activated by response inhibition tasks and that can be modulated by emotional valence...
An FMRI Stroop task study of ventromedial prefrontal cortical function in pathological gamblersMarc N Potenza
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut Mental Health Center, Room S 104, 34 Park Street, New Haven, CT 06519, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:1990-4. 2003..The authors used the Stroop paradigm to test attention and response inhibition during the presentation of congruent and incongruent stimuli in male pathological gamblers and a group of comparison subjects...
Reduced ventral anterior cingulate and amygdala volumes in medication-naïve females with major depressive disorder: A voxel-based morphometric magnetic resonance imaging studyYanqing Tang
Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, 86, Mid Renmin Road, Changsha, Hunan 410011, PR China
Psychiatry Res 156:83-6. 2007..These results suggest that volume reductions in vACC and amygdala in females with MDD are present at illness onset...
The next wave in neuroimaging research in pediatric bipolar disorderHilary P Blumberg
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:483-5. 2008
Abnormal anterior cingulum integrity in bipolar disorder determined through diffusion tensor imagingFei Wang
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Br J Psychiatry 193:126-9. 2008..The cingulum is an important candidate structure for study in bipolar disorder as it provides substantial white matter connections within the corticolimbic neural system that subserves emotional regulation involved in the disorder...
Frontotemporal neural systems in bipolar disorderHilary P Blumberg
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Semin Clin Neuropsychiatry 7:243-54. 2002..We suggest that ventral and medial prefrontal and amygdalar abnormalities may play important roles in a subset of BD symptoms and are potential targets for treatments...
The neuroanatomy of mood disorders. IntroductionHilary P Blumberg
Semin Clin Neuropsychiatry 7:221-2. 2002
Research Grants
- Genetics of Hippocampal Deficits in Bipolar DisorderHilary Blumberg; Fiscal Year: 2009..To the best of our knowledge this is the first integrated neuroimaging and genetic study of modification of regional brain abnormalities in BD by genetic variations. ..
- Development of Brain Abnormalities in Bipolar DisorderHilary Blumberg; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Genetic Influences on Frontotemporal Connectivity in Bipolar DisorderHilary P Blumberg; Fiscal Year: 2011....
