BACKGROUND: Disturbed interpersonal relations and emotional dysregulation are fundamental
aspects of borderline personality disorder (BPD). The amygdala plays important roles …

Strakowski SM, Adler CM, Almeida J, Altshuler LL, Blumberg HP, Chang KD, DelBello MP,
Frangou S, McIntosh A, Phillips ML, Sussman JE, Townsend JD. The functional …

Background Abnormalities in prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices are implicated in
disturbances of attention, cognition, and impulse regulation in bipolar disorder. Acute episodes …

Background The purported functions of medial temporal lobe structures suggest their
involvement in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder (BD). Previous reports of abnormalities in …

OBJECTIVE: Function of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex has been implicated in impulse
control. The authors used the Stroop paradigm to test attention and response inhibition …

Objective To study the relationship between self-reported exposure to childhood maltreatment
(CM) and cerebral gray matter (GM) morphology in adolescents without psychiatric …

Background: Executive control of cognition, emotion, and behavior are disrupted in the manic
state of bipolar disorder. Whereas frontal systems are implicated in such dysfunction, the …

OBJECTIVE: This study investigated prefrontal cortex function in the manic state of bipolar
disorder. METHOD: High-sensitivity [ 15 O]H 2 O positron emission tomography and a word …

Identifying brain alterations that contribute to suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) are
important to develop more targeted and effective strategies to prevent suicide. In the last decade…

Childhood maltreatment (CM) has been associated with diminished executive functioning in
children and adults; however, there is a relative paucity of study of executive function in …