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Global resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging analysis identifies frontal cortex, striatal, and cerebellar dysconnectivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder

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Anticevic, Alan, Hu, Sien, Zhang, Sheng, Savic, Aleksandar, Billingslea, Eileen, Wasylink, Suzanne, Repovs, Grega, Cole, Michael W. +5 more·2014·Biological Psychiatry

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Background Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with regional hyperactivity in cortico-striatal circuits. However, the large-scale patterns of abnormal neural connectivity remain uncharacterized. Resting-state functional connectivity studies have shown altered connectivity within the implicated circuitry, but they have used seed-driven approaches wherein a circuit of interest is defined a priori. This limits their ability to identify network abnormalities beyond the prevailing framework. This limitation is particularly problematic within the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which is large and heterogeneous and where a priori specification of seeds is therefore difficult. A hypothesis-neutral, data-driven approach to the analysis of connectivity is vital.Methods We analyzed resting-state functional connectivity data collected at 3T in 27 OCD patients and 66 matched control subjects with a recently developed data-driven global brain connectivity (GBC) method, both within the PFC and across the whole brain.Results We found clusters of decreased connectivity in the left lateral PFC in both whole-brain and PFC-restricted analyses. Increased GBC was found in the right putamen and left cerebellar cortex. Within regions of interest in the basal ganglia and thalamus, we identified increased GBC in dorsal striatum and anterior thalamus, which was reduced in patients on medication. The ventral striatum/nucleus accumbens exhibited decreased global connectivity but increased connectivity specifically with the ventral anterior cingulate cortex in subjects with OCD.Conclusions These findings identify previously uncharacterized PFC and basal ganglia dysconnectivity in OCD and reveal differentially altered GBC in dorsal and ventral striatum. Results highlight complex disturbances in PFC networks, which could contribute to disrupted cortical-striatal-cerebellar circuits in OCD.

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  • Resting state fMRI studies generally support a role for cortical-basal ganglia circuit dysfunction in OCD, demonstrating abnormal connectivity of OFC, ACC, ventral striatum, dorsal striatum, putamen, and anterior thalamus.

    “recent fMRI studies of resting state connectivity have also generally supported a role for cortical-basal ganglia circuit dysfunction in OCD, demonstrating abnormal connectivity of orbitofrontal cortex 60–62, anterior cingulate 61,63, ventral striatum 61–63, dorsal striatum 62,63, putamen 60,63, and anterior thalamus 63.”
  • Other regions including subthalamic nucleus, cerebellum, and temporal cortex have also been implicated in OCD, and directionality of findings varies across studies.

    “other regions including subthalamic nucleus 60, cerebellum 63,64, and temporal cortex 64 have also been implicated, and directionality of findings varies across studies”
  • These studies did not assess specific thalamic connections, whereas we showed greater connectivity between the thalamus and SMN using whole-brain network analysis, thereby refining understanding of thalamic connectivity in OCD.

    “These studies did not assess specific thalamic connections, whereas we showed greater connectivity between the thalamus and SMN using whole-brain network analysis, thereby refining our understanding of thalamic connectivity in OCD.”
  • Permutation testing (N=10,000) was used to test differences in network strength between OCD and healthy participants, controlling for age, gender, and scanner, with Bonferroni correction for 9 comparisons.

    “Finally, we used permutation testing(N=10,000) to test for differences in network strength between OCD and healthy participants(PBonferroni<0.05 for 9 comparisons), controlling for age, gender, and scanner(9,14,34).”
  • Resting-state functional connectivity studies report greater global connectivity in the posterior cerebellum in OCD.

    “Resting-state functional connectivity studies report greater global connectivity in the posterior cerebellum in OCD(34,35).”

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Anticevic, A., Hu, S., Zhang, S., Savic, A., Billingslea, E., Wasylink, S., Repovs, G., Cole, M. W., Bednarski, S., Krystal, J. H., Bloch, M. H., Li, C.-S. R., & Pittenger, C.
Affiliations
  • Yale University (US)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
Corresponding author
Pittenger, Christopher
Venue
Biological Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2014-04
Volume
75
Issue
8
Pages
595-605
ISSN
0006-3223 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2009341243
Cited by
268
References
84
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FWCI
24.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Biological Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • The Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (UL1RR024139)
  • The Fullbright Foundation (K99MH0968010 (MWC), K08MH081190 (CP), R01MH095790 (CP))
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Neurological disorders and treatments
Keywords
obsessive-compulsive disorder, resting-state functional connectivity, global brain connectivity, basal ganglia, dorsal striatum, ventral striatum, nucleus accumbens, cerebellum, anterior thalamic nuclei, antipsychotic effects, ventral anterior cingulate cortex
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cerebellum, Corpus Striatum, Female, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Neural Pathways, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Rest, Young Adult

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