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What we learn about bipolar disorder from large-scale neuroimaging: Findings and future directions from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group: Findings and future directions from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group

  • ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group
  • University of Southern California
  • Genentech Incorporated
  • University of Oslo
  • Dalhousie University
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
  • University Medical Center Utrecht
  • University of Galway
  • University of California at San Diego
  • Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Université Paris-Est Créteil
  • Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
  • National Institute of Mental Health
  • Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris
  • University of Gothenburg
  • Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  • University of Toronto
  • CIBER - Center for Biomedical Research Network
  • King's College London
  • Norrtälje Hospital
  • Universidade de São Paulo
  • Erasmus MC
  • University of Barcelona
  • National University of Defense Technology
  • Department of Pediatrics, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, TX, USA
  • Sisters Hospitallers Research Foundation
  • CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain
  • Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
  • Technische Universität Dresden
  • University of Münster
  • University of Melbourne
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • University of Verona
  • Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
  • IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele
  • University of Milan
  • Deakin University
  • P1vital
  • University of Oxford
  • Yale University
  • IRCCS Fondazione Ca'Granda – Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico - Milano
  • University of Lausanne
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
  • Cardiff University
  • Monash University
  • Universidad de Antioquia
  • City, University of London
  • VA Medical Center
  • University of British Columbia
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Neuroscience Research Australia
  • University of New South Wales
  • Harvard University
  • Heidelberg University 
  • University of Groningen
  • Department of Psychiatry, Service Hospitalo-Universitaire, GHU Paris Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Paris, France
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • University of Cape Town
  • University of Marburg
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Mood Disorders Program, Hospital Universitario Trastorno del Ánimo, Medellín, Colombia
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • University of Cincinnati
  • MEG Core Facility, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
  • National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry Kodaira
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Research Group, Instituto de Alta Tecnología Médica (IATM), Medellín, Colombia
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Singapore Institute of Mental Health
  • National University of Singapore
  • Center of Excellent on Mood Disorders, UTHealth Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
  • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UTHealth Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • Amsterdam Reproduction and Development Research Institute, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Chief Experimental Therapeutics & Pathophysiology Branch, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Diakonhjemmet Hospital
  • Utrecht University
  • École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort
  • Stockholm County Council
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • CIBERSAM
  • Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy
  • Scientific Institute Ospedale San Raffaele
  • P1Vital Ltd
  • Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
  • Service Hospitalo-Universitaire
  • Université de Paris
  • Hospital Universitario Trastorno del Ánimo
  • MEG Core Facility
  • Instituto de Alta Tecnología Médica (IATM)
  • UTHealth Houston
  • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  • Chief Experimental Therapeutics & Pathophysiology Branch

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Abstract

MRI-derived brain measures offer a link between genes, the environment and behavior and have been widely studied in bipolar disorder (BD). However, many neuroimaging studies of BD have been underpowered, leading to varied results and uncertainty regarding effects. The Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) Bipolar Disorder Working Group was formed in 2012 to empower discoveries, generate consensus findings and inform future hypothesis-driven studies of BD. Through this effort, over 150 researchers from 20 countries and 55 institutions pool data and resources to produce the largest neuroimaging studies of BD ever conducted. The ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group applies standardized processing and analysis techniques to empower large-scale meta- and mega-analyses of multimodal brain MRI and improve the replicability of studies relating brain variation to clinical and genetic data. Initial BD Working Group studies reveal widespread patterns of lower cortical thickness, subcortical volume and disrupted white matter integrity associated with BD. Findings also include mapping brain alterations of common medications like lithium, symptom patterns and clinical risk profiles and have provided further insights into the pathophysiological mechanisms of BD. Here we discuss key findings from the BD working group, its ongoing projects and future directions for large-scale, collaborative studies of mental illness.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)56-82
Number of pages27
JournalHuman brain mapping
Volume43
Issue number1
Early online date2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2022

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Keywords

  • ENIGMA
  • MRI
  • bipolar disorder
  • cortical surface area
  • cortical thickness
  • mega-analysis
  • meta-analysis
  • neuroimaging
  • psychiatry
  • volume

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