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PW01-148 - Effective Connectivity Within The Network Of Fearful Facial Affect Recognition In Patients With Bipolar Disorder Compared To Healthy Controls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2020

M. Kempton ,
D. Dima ,
J. Roiser ,
K. Stephan ,
K. Friston  and
S. Frangou
M. Kempton
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK
D. Dima
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK
J. Roiser
Affiliation:
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
K. Stephan
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK
K. Friston
Affiliation:
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK
S. Frangou
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK

Abstract

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Objectives

There is significant overlap between the cortical network involved in fearful face perception and regional abnormalities identified in patients with bipolar disorder. The primary aim of this study was to measure effective connectivity arising from Dynamic Causal Modelling (DCM) to identify differences within this network in a group of patients with bipolar disorder and controls during an affective processing task.

Methods

Functional MRI was used to record brain activations from 52 euthymic patients with bipolar disorder and 44 healthy controls engaged in a fearful versus neutral facial affect recognition task. We used Bayesian model selection to identify the best model of effective connectivity, as well as a random-effects analysis. Additionally, the endogenous connections and modulatory influences were extracted and further analyzed.

Results

Within the network subserving fearful facial affect recognition, patients with bipolar disorder demonstrated reduced connectivity from the inferior occipital gyrus to the fusiform gyrus compared to healthy controls. Furthermore this connection when modulated by fear showed a reduction in strength in patients with bipolar disorder.

Conclusions

Bipolar disorder was associated with deficits early in the processing of facial affect suggesting the possibility of perceptual abnormalities being associated with the disorder.

Dr Frangou was supported by a NARSAD Independent Investigator Award

Type
Neuroimaging
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 25 , Issue S1: 18th European Congress of Psychiatry. February 27, March 2, 2010 - Munich, Germany , 2010 , 25-E1547
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2009
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