Gray matter differences between pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder patients and high-risk siblings: A preliminary voxel-based morphometry study |
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Authors: | Andrew R Gilbert Matcheri S Keshavan Vaibhav Diwadkar Jeffrey Nutche Frank MacMaster Phillip C Easter Christian J Buhagiar David R Rosenberg |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Psychiatry 9B, 4201 St. Antoine Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA, United States;2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Children''s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI, United States |
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Abstract: | Neuroimaging studies have identified alterations in frontostriatal circuitry in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) allows for the assessment of differences in gray matter density across the whole brain. VBM has not previously been used to examine regional gray matter density in pediatric OCD patients and the siblings of pediatric OCD patients. Volumetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies were conducted in 10 psychotropic naïve pediatric patients with OCD, 10 unaffected siblings of pediatric patients with OCD, and 10 healthy controls. VBM analysis was conducted using SPM2. Statistical comparisons were performed with the general linear model, implementing small volume random field corrections for a priori regions of interest (anterior cingulate cortex or ACC, striatum and thalamus). VBM analysis revealed significantly lower gray matter density in OCD patients compared to healthy in the left ACC and bilateral medial superior frontal gyrus (SFG). Furthermore, a small volume correction was used to identify a significantly greater gray matter density in the right putamen in OCD patients as compared to unaffected siblings of OCD patients. These findings in patients, siblings, and healthy controls, although preliminary, suggest the presence of gray matter structural differences between affected subjects and healthy controls as well as between affected subjects and individuals at risk for OCD. |
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Keywords: | Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) Pediatric High-risk Neuroimaging Siblings Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) |
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