“…However, when considering thousands of risk-conferring alleles, as reflected in the PGR-BD score, we found that their additive effect on the facial affect network involved primarily the recruitment of visual cortical regions. These findings add to the growing evidence of visual information processing abnormalities in patients with BD observed in visual backward masking (McClure, 1999), vernier acuity (Kéri et al, 2005), motion discrimination (Chen et al, 2006, O'Bryan et al, 2014), context modulation (Yang et al, 2013) and early visual evoked potentials (Yeap et al, 2009). It is suggested therefore that abnormalities in early sensory processing of affective visual stimuli may contribute to inadequate emotional regulation and predispose individuals to development of the BD.…”