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Dynamics of psychotherapy-related cerebral haemodynamic changes in obsessive compulsive disorder using a personalized exposure task in functional magnetic resonance imaging

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Morgiève, M., N'Diaye, K., Haynes, W. I. A., Granger, B., Clair, A.-H., Pelissolo, A., Mallet, L.·2014·Psychological Medicine

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Background: Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a successful treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). It is known to induce changes in cerebral metabolism; however, the dynamics of these changes and their relation to clinical change remain largely unknown, precluding the identification of individualized response biomarkers. Method: In order to study the dynamics of treatment response, we performed systematic clinical and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) evaluation of 35 OCD patients immediately before a 3-month course of CBT, halfway through and at its end, as well as 6 months after. To sensitize fMRI probing, we used an original exposure task using neutral, generic and personalized obsession-inducing images. Results: As expected, CBT produced a significant improvement in OCD. This improvement was continuous over the course of the therapy; therefore, outcome could be predicted by response at mid-therapy (r2 = 0.67, p < 0.001). Haemodynamic response to the task was located in the anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal cortices and was stronger during exposure to personalized obsession-inducing images. In addition, both the anxiety ratings and the haemodynamic response to the obsession-inducing images in the anterior cingulate and the left but not the right orbitofrontal clusters decreased with symptom improvement. Interestingly, haemodynamic activity continued to decrease after stabilization of clinical symptoms. Conclusions: Using an innovative and highly sensitive exposure paradigm in fMRI, we showed that clinical and haemodynamic phenotypes have similar time courses during CBT. Our results, which suggest that the initial CBT sessions are crucial, prompt us to investigate the anatomo-functional modifications underlying the very first weeks of the therapy.

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  • Task-based fMRI studies of EX/RP response have been limited to contamination- or checking-related image viewing tasks with small samples or nonsignificant prediction.

    “To date, research on task-based fMRI predictors of EX/ RP response has been limited to contamination-or checkingrelated image viewing paradigms with either small samples or nonsignificant treatment prediction (9,10).”
  • The findings highlight cognitive conflict resolution in cingulo-opercular and DMN regions as a potential large-effect predictor of EX/RP response.

    “Thus, our findings build on literature examining neural predictors of EX/RP response in OCD (3-10), highlighting the resolution of cognitive conflict within cingulo-opercular and DMN regions as a potential predictor of EX/RP response with large effect size.”

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Authors
Morgiève, M., N'Diaye, K., Haynes, W. I. A., Granger, B., Clair, A.-H., Pelissolo, A., & Mallet, L.
Affiliations
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
  • Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (FR)
Corresponding author
Mallet, L.
Venue
Psychological Medicine
Published
2013-09-04
Volume
44
Issue
7
Pages
1461-1473
ISSN
  • 0033-2917 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-8978
OpenAlex
W2153281793
Cited by
74
References
64
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FWCI
7.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Psychological Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
Keywords
obsessive-compulsive disorder, cognitive behavioral therapy, anterior cingulate cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, treatment response biomarkers, anxiety
MeSH terms
Adult, Cerebral Cortex, Cerebrovascular Circulation, Female, Hemodynamics, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Treatment Outcome

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