Medial frontal and dorsal cortical morphometric abnormalities are related to obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Full Abstract

Whole-brain voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies provide support for orbitofrontal, medial frontal as well as for dorsal cortical volumetric alteration in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, there is still a need to replicate a priori unpredicted findings and to elucidate white matter volumetric abnormalities and relationships between grey (GM) and white (WM) matter volume and clinical characteristics of OCD. We compared GM and WM volume in a group of 14 patients with OCD and 15 healthy controls using a 3T MRI scanner and an optimized VBM protocol. Regression analysis was used to examine relationships between GM and WM volume and clinical variables. In OCD we have found total WM volume reduction and marked mediofrontal, right temporo-parieto-occipital, right precentral, left middle temporal, left cerebellar and bilateral pons and mesencephalon GM volume reduction in the voxel-based analysis (p

Author information

Author/s: Koprivová, Jana (J); Horácek, Jirí (J); Tintera, Jaroslav (J); Prasko, Ján (J); Raszka, Michal (M); Ibrahim, Ibrahim (I); Höschl, Cyril (C);

Affiliation: Prague Psychiatric Centre, Prague, Czech Republic. koprivova(-atsign-)pcp.lf3.cuni.cz

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Neuroscience letters (Neurosci Lett), published in Ireland. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Oct; vol 464 (issue 1) : pp 62-6

Dates: Created 2009/08/31; Completed 2009/11/03;

PMID: 19666084, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/3/2009, IMS Date: )

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