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Article: New research on bipolar disorder from National Institute of Mental Health summarized.(Report)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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"Deficits in sustained attention may represent an endophenotype for bipolar disorder (BD). One heritable measure of sustained attention is intrasubject variability in response time (ISV-RT)," researchers in the United States report (see also Bipolar Disorder).
"We tested the hypothesis that, compared with controls, both youths with BD and those at familial risk for the disorder would have increased ISV-RT. Subjects were 28 patients with BID, 26 unaffected youths with a first-degree relative with BD, and 24 control youths without an affected relative, all aged 7 to 17 years. Subjects completed the Flanker Continuous Performance Test. Bipolar disorder and at-risk ...
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