TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - Frontolimbic brain volume abnormalities in bipolar disorder with suicide attempts JO - Psychiatry research A1 - Jabbi, Mbemba A1 - Weber, Wade A1 - Welge, Jeffrey A1 - Nery, Fabiano A1 - Tallman, Maxwell A1 - Gable, Austin A1 - Fleck, David E. A1 - Lippard, Elizabeth T. C. A1 - DelBello, Melissa A1 - Adler, Caleb A1 - Strakowski, Stephen M. SP - e113516 EP - e113516 VL - 294 IS - N2 - Over 2.3 million people in the United States live with bipolar disorder. Sixty percent of those with a bipolar disorder diagnosis attempt suicide at least once in their lifetime and up to 19% die by suicide. However, the neurobiology of suicide attempts in bipolar disorder remains unclear. We studied the gray matter volume (GMV) of 81 participants with a bipolar-I diagnosis (age-range: 14-34 years old) and 40 healthy participants (age-range 14.7-32 years old) to compare their neuroanatomy and histories of suicide attempt. In the bipolar group, 42 were manic with ages ranging from 14-30.6 years, and 39 were depressed with ages ranging from 14-34.3 years). Twenty three bipolar participants had a suicide attempt history, and 58 had no suicide attempt history. All participants completed behavioral/diagnostic assessments and MRI. We focused on a predefined frontolimbic circuitry in bipolar disorder versus controls to first identify diagnostic GMV correlates and to specifically identify GMV correlates for suicide attempt history. We found reduced GMV in bipolar diagnosis versus controls in the subgenual cingulate and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices. Our observed regional GMV reductions were associated with histories of suicide attempts and measures of individual variations in current suicidal ideation at the time of scanning.

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LA - en SN - 0165-1781 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113516 ID - ref1 ER -