SOURCE: Medical News Today
DATE: December 10, 2007
EXCERPT: "Puberty may have an impact on areas of the brain that contribute to bipolar disorder or schizophrenia in youth .... Researchers studying the brains of youth with bipolar disorder (also known as manic depressive illness) and schizophrenia found that these children have size differences in some rain areas between these disorders and between genders." more
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Frazier JA, Breeze JL, Papadimitriou G, Kennedy DN, Hodge SM, Moore CM, Howard JD, Rohan MP, Caviness VS, Makris N. White matter abnormalities in children with and at risk for bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord. 2007 Dec;9(8):799-809.
Frazier JA, Hodge SM, Breeze JL, Giuliano AJ, Terry JE, Moore CM, Kennedy DN, Lopez-Larson MP, Caviness VS, Seidman LJ, Zablotsky B, Makris N. Diagnostic and sex effects on limbic volumes in early-onset bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull. 2008 Jan;34(1):37-46. Epub 2007 Nov 13.
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