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Empathy is evolutionary preserved in social organisms and emotional face processing is one of its measures. Systems possibly active during empathic processing include perspective-taking, basic emotional contagion “mirroring” and “theory of mind” systems.fMRI studies help clarifying neural correlates of empathic face processing; ALE meta-analysing fMRI studies allows identification of brain area activation/deactivation...
Impulsivity is a key feature of both bipolar disorder (BD) type I (BDI) and type II (BDII).Structural neuroimaging studies help clarifying brain mechanisms underpinning the regulation of impulsivity in BDI and BDII.To address the question whether grey matter (GM) alterations relate differently with impulsivity in BDI and BDII.We assessed 54 euthymic outpatients, diagnosed with BDI (n=28) or BDII (n=26)...