Cortical Correlates of Impulsive Aggressive Behavior in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
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Background: Impulsive aggression represents a frequent characteristic of pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD). Cortical alterations associated with impulsive aggression and its multiple facets have not been investigated yet in youth with bipolar disorder. Aim: To investigate the relationship between cortical thickness and facets of impulsive aggression in youth with PBD. Materials and Methods: Twenty-three youth with PBD and 23 healthy controls (HC) were administered the aggression questionnaire (AQ) and underwent 3T magnetic resonance imaging scan. Cortical thickness was assessed with FreeSurfer. Canonical correlation analyses were used to investigate the relationship between AQ total and subscale scores and cortical thickness in youth with PBD. Results: Youth with PBD had increased scores in the subscales of AQ-anger and AQ-hostility and cortical thinning in in areas belonging to the affective network (AN), frontoparietal network (FPN) and cingulo-opercular network (CON), i.e., right rostral anterior cingulate, right caudal anterior cingulate, right lateral orbitofrontal, right medial orbitofrontal, left and right inferior parietal, left posterior cingulate, left and right supramarginal left lingual cortices. Greater thickness in these networks positively correlated with the AQ-hostility subscale and negatively correlated with AQ-anger subscale. Conclusions: The opposite patterns observed between areas belonging to AN, FPN, CON, and the two facets of IA, namely anger and hostility, corroborate clinical findings supporting the different nature of these two constructs
Aggression · Anger · Anterior cingulate cortex · Bipolar disorder · Cognition · Hostility · Orbitofrontal cortex · Prefrontal cortex · Psychiatry · Bipolar Disorder and Treatment · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
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