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Yun Wu1,2,3, Yuan Zhong1,2,3, Gui Zhang1,2,3
1School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, 122 Ninghai Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210097, China.
Abstract:
Accumulating evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging studies supported brain dysfunction during emotional processing in bipolar disorder (BD) and major depressive disorder (MDD). However, child and adolescent BD and MDD could display different activation patterns, which have not been fully understood. This study aimed to investigate common and distinct activation patterns of pediatric BD (PBD) and MDD (p-MDD) during emotion processing using meta-analytic approaches. Literature search identified 25 studies, contrasting 252 PBD patients, and 253 healthy controls (HCs) as well as 311 p-MDD patients and 263 HCs. A total of nine meta-analyses were conducted pulling PBD and p-MDD experiments together and separately. The results revealed that PBD and p-MDD showed distinct patterns during negative processing. PBD patients exhibited activity changes in bilateral precuneus, left inferior parietal gyrus, left angular gyrus, and right posterior cingulate cortex while p-MDD patients showed functional disruptions in the left rectus, left triangular part of the inferior frontal gyrus, left orbital frontal cortex, left insula, and left putamen. In conclusion, the activity changes in PBD patients were mainly in regions correlated with emotion perception while the dysfunction among p-MDD patients was in the fronto-limbic circuit and reward-related regions in charge of emotion appraisal and regulation.
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