As a commonly seen mental illness with a global prevalence rate of
3%, bipolar disorder(BD), also known as a bipolar affective disorder, ranks
top 6 among global disabling diseases. Besides the categories of hypomanic
BD type Ⅱ and I, BD also shows the clinical symptoms in cognition, affection
and movement, such as out-of-control emotions, abnormal autonomic nerve
function, impaired cognition, psychotic symptoms and impulsive disposition.
In this paper, based on the transorbital lobotomies of inchoate neurosurgery
for mania, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and antisocial
personality disorders with violent tendencies, and the comparison between the
studies of modern neuroimaging, it was found that there are great similarities
between the symptoms of patients with BD and those with transorbital
lobotomies, such as personality difference, memory loss, hypophrenia, mood
disorders and personality defects. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is becoming a popular non-invasive tool for brain region imaging with
active functions. As an important means to explore brain functions based on
blood oxygenation level depended (BOLD) functional imaging of the cerebral
cortex and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) based functional imaging of the
white matter, fMRI has become the most widely used technique. Several
neuropathology research models are used to conceptualize the underlying
neurobiology mechanism of mood disorders. Nowadays, the attention of global
experts is mainly paid to the directions as follows. First, the destruction of brain
reward circuits leads to obvious motivational impairment in patients with BD;
Second, in a stressful environment, the relationship between the HPA axis and
the brain’s mood response; Last but not least, mania and depression are a state of
mutual adjustment and balance. In neurobiology, it is believed that the damage
of the nerve tissues is the major cause of BD. According to Philip’s findings,
the nervous system of regulating human emotions is mainly concentrated
in the ventral lateral prefrontal cortex (VPFC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC),
insular cortex, ventral anterior cingulate cortex, nucleus accumbens, amygdala,
cerebellar vermis, and brainstem nucleus (raphe nuclei, somatic motor nucleus,
special visceral motor nucleus, Reticular formation, reticular nucleuslocus
coeruleus) in 2003. The ventral system is mainly responsible for sensing
emotional stimuli, forming emotional states, and generating autonomous
responses. In contrast, the dorsal system involves the dorsal lateral prefrontal
cortex (DLPFC), dorsal medial prefrontal cortex, dorsal anterior cingulate
cortex and hippocampus, which are responsible for regulating emotional states,
emotional inhibition, working memory, and concentration. Over these years,
the development of magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy technology
has changed the neurophysiological research of bipolar disorder. Structural
imaging can also identify regions of interest (ROIs) in the brain to guide the
research efforts of latecomers.