APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Using fMRI to Distinguish Depressive Episodes Associated with Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder in Unmedicated Female Adolescents

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Biological/Neuroscience

Session: Poster Session XI

Authors

Abstract

This fMRI pilot study is the first to compare unmedicated, actively depressed adolescent females with MDD and BD. A main effect of diagnosis was observed during reward/punishment anticipation processing, and all depressed participants showed different neural response than controls to solving mathematical equations preceded by emotional faces versus neutral faces.

Depression