snippetofmyallnighter kendra Further to this finding of a brain abnormality in bipolar patients, with psychosis in particular, Sax, Strakowski, Zimmerman, DelBello, Keck, & Hawkins (1999) suggest that certain neuroanatomic structures are associated with attentional dysfunction in mania. In their study, bipolar patients with mania performed poorly on a Continuous Performance Test (as expected). After MRI, a correlation between prefrontal and hippocampal volume and Continuous Performance Test results was established. Specifically, the results suggest that abnormalities in the frontosubcortical neuroanatomic circuit are associated with impaired attentional functioning in patients with mania. Coordinating with this focus on abnormalities specifically existing in mania, Blumberg, Stern, Ricketts, Martinez, Asis, White, Epstein, Isenberg, McBride, Kemperman, Emmerich, Dhawan, Eidelberg, Kocsis, & Silbersweig (1999) investigated prefrontal cortex function in the manic state of bipolar disorder. 001129 what's it to you? who go blather from