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Chapter 5 - Brain Imaging of Reward Dysfunction in Unipolar and Bipolar Disorders

from Section 3 - Functional and Neurochemical Brain Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2021

By
Poornima Kumar ,
Yueyi Jiang  and
Alexis E. Whitton
Edited by
Sudhakar Selvaraj ,
Paolo Brambilla  and
Jair C. Soares
Sudhakar Selvaraj
Affiliation:
UTHealth School of Medicine, USA
Paolo Brambilla
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Milano
Jair C. Soares
Affiliation:
UT Harris County Psychiatric Center, USA
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Summary

In recent years, there has been tremendous support for working toward the RDoC goals of identifying the neurobiological mechanisms that cut across or are common to multiple psychiatric disorders. Identifying the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying transdiagnostic symptoms will improve the validity of disease classifications by grouping individuals based on multiple dimensions of behavior and biology. This could potentially account for heterogeneity and comorbidity observed among DSM diagnostic categories.

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Mood Disorders
Brain Imaging and Therapeutic Implications
 , pp. 39 - 48
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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