Brain Connectivity Imaging Markers to Confirm Diagnosis for Bipolar vs. Unipolar Depression – A Connectome Approach.

区分双相情感障碍和单相抑郁是一个主要的临床挑战。这种误诊阻碍了最佳的临床护理，并有许多有害的后果，如自我伤害，自杀的机会增加，预后不良，以及与这种疾病相关的更大的医疗保健费用。该项目将提供急需的进步，准确识别双相情感障碍使用磁共振成像和消除一个关键的障碍，以准确诊断。

Differentiating Bipolar disorders from Unipolar Depression is a major clinical challenge. This misdiagnosis hinders optimal clinical care and has many deleterious consequences such self-harm, increased chances of suicide, poor prognosis, and greater health care costs related to this disorder. This project will provide urgently-needed advance in accurate identification of Bipolar disorders using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and remove one of the key obstacles to accurate diagnosis.