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Functional disturbances within frontostriatal circuits across multiple childhood psychopathologies

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Marsh, Rachel, Maia, Tiago V., Peterson, Bradley S.·2009·American Journal of Psychiatry

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Neuroimaging studies of healthy individuals inform us about the normative maturation of the frontostriatal circuits that subserve self-regulatory control processes. Findings from these studies can be used as a reference frame against which to compare the aberrant development of these processes in individuals across a wide range of childhood psychopathologies. METHOD: The authors reviewed extensive neuroimaging evidence for the presence of abnormalities in frontostriatal circuits in children and adults with Tourette's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as well as a more limited number of imaging studies of adolescents and adults with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa that, together, implicate dysregulation of frontostriatal control systems in the pathogenesis of these eating disorders. RESULTS: The presence of an impaired capacity for self-regulatory control that derives from abnormal development of frontostriatal circuits likely interacts in similar ways with normally occurring somatic sensations and motor urges, intrusive thoughts, sensations of hunger, and preoccupation with body shape and weight to contribute, respectively, to the development of the tics of Tourette's syndrome, the obsessions of OCD, the binge eating behaviors of bulimia, and the self-starvation of anorexia. CONCLUSIONS: Analogous brain mechanisms in parallel frontostriatal circuits, or even in differing portions of the same frontostriatal circuit, may underlie the differing behavioral disturbances in these multiple disorders, although further research is needed to confirm this hypothesis.

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  • Findingcitation

    Our fMRI findings among women with bulimia suggest that failure to engage frontostriatal circuits appropriately contributes to impairments in behavioral self-regulation.

    “Our fMRI findings among women with bulimia suggest that their failure to engage frontostriatal circuits appropriately contributes to their impairments in behavioral self-regulation (87).”
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    Analyses of brain activity during errors indicated greater activation of dorsal anterior cingulate cortex in patients during incorrect responses relative to correct responses on conflict trials, suggesting heightened error detection or performance monitoring.

    “Analyses of brain activity during the commission of errors indicated greater activation of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex of patients during incorrect responses relative to correct responses on conflict trials, suggesting the presence of heightened error detection or performance monitoring activity.”
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    Even when responding correctly on incongruent trials, patients with bulimia failed to generate the same activity as comparison subjects in frontostriatal pathways including inferolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices, inferior frontal gyrus, putamen, and caudate.

    “Even when responding correctly on incongruent trials, patients failed to generate the same activity as comparison subjects in the frontostriatal pathways thought to subserve inhibitory control, including the in-ferolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices, inferior frontal gyrus, putamen, and caudate.”
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    Difficulty controlling ego-dystonic thoughts, urges, or behaviors is a common characteristic of several psychiatric disorders that arise in childhood or adolescence.

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    Frontostriatal circuits subserve the capacity for self-regulation in both health and illness.

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    Those with most severe bulimia symptoms engaged these regions least and demonstrated poorest performance on the task.

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    Activation of this region did not modulate impulsive performance on subsequent trials, since reaction times did not slow following errors.

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    Patients with bulimia responded impulsively and made more errors relative to comparison subjects on the Simon task.

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    Interpretationnone given

    Analogous brain mechanisms in parallel frontostriatal circuits, or in differing portions of the same circuit, may underlie the differing behavioral disturbances in Tourette's syndrome, OCD, bulimia, and anorexia.

    “Analogous brain mechanisms in parallel frontostriatal circuits, or even in differing portions of the same frontostriatal circuit, may underlie the differing behavioral disturbances in these multiple disorders, although further research is needed to confirm this hypothesis.”
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    The development of self-regulation parallels and is thought to depend on the maturation of frontostriatal circuits.

    “The development of this capacity parallels and is thought to depend on the maturation of frontostriatal circuits (27–29).”
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    All of these illnesses typically begin during childhood or adolescence, periods during which self-regulation develops rapidly.

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    In that study, activation of inferolateral prefrontal cortex and lenticular nucleus increased with age as well as response speed and accuracy, suggesting that increasing activity of frontostriatal circuits improves behavioral control as children mature.

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    Recurrent binge eating episodes, frequent impulsive behaviors, and inability to inhibit preoccupation with weight and body shape suggest impaired self-regulation in bulimia.

    “The recurrent binge eating episodes, the frequency of other accompanying impulsive behaviors (20), and the inability to inhibit the constant preoccupation with weight and body shape suggest the presence of an impaired capacity for self-regulation in bulimia.”
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    The tics of Tourette's syndrome are typically brief, nonpurposeful or semipurposeful behavioral fragments often enacted in response to internal or external sensory cues.

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    High rates of diagnostic crossover from anorexia to bulimia suggest these disorders may share a common neural substrate.

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    Anorexia shares with bulimia the inability to inhibit weight- and body shape-related thoughts, which may suggest a reduced rather than enhanced capacity for self-regulation in anorexia.

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    The first three frontostriatal loops pass through the dorsal striatum, and the last two pass through the ventromedial striatum, including the nucleus accumbens.

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    Inhibiting the prepotent reading response during incongruent Stroop trials requires mobilization of attentional resources and resolution of cognitive conflict, with down-modulation of automatic reading and up-modulation of color-naming.

    “Inhibiting the prepotent reading response during incongruent trials requires the mobilization of attentional resources and the resolution of cognitive conflict, with down-modulation of the more automatic reading response and up-modulation of the less automatic but more task-relevant color-naming response (32).”
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    The prefrontal components of frontostriatal pathways have long been assigned a central role in controlling thought and behavior in accord with the pursuit of future goals.

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    Brain activity when naming colors of incongruent stimuli is greater than for congruent stimuli, particularly in anterior cingulate, prefrontal and parietal cortices, and striatum, in both adults and children.

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    The dorsal striatum mediates habit- or stimulus-response learning, while the ventral striatum mediates reward, drive, and motivation.

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    In each circuit, information flows predominantly through either a direct or an indirect pathway, both modulated by dopamine.

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    In that study, frontal cortices activated prominently, and magnitude of frontal activation correlated with increased caudate activity, which was associated with greater decreases in putamen, globus pallidus, and thalamus activity.

    “Findings from the study revealed that frontal cortices activated prominently, and the magnitude of frontal activation correlated significantly with increased activity in the caudate, which, in turn, was associated with greater decreases in activity of the putamen, globus pallidus, and thalamus.”
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    Normal maturational trajectories in frontostriatal systems provide a reference frame from which to identify deviant patterns of development in Tourette's syndrome, OCD, bulimia, and anorexia.

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    Interpretationcitation

    The need to suppress tics in social settings likely activates prefrontal cortices frequently and powerfully, possibly stimulating activity-dependent neuroplastic hypertrophy.

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    Diffusion tensor imaging studies have shown changes in prefrontal white matter during development that presumably reflect myelination of axons during childhood and adolescence.

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    Hyperinnervation of the striatum by dopaminergic neurons may excessively stimulate the direct pathway while inhibiting the indirect pathway in Tourette's, contributing to difficulty regulating tics.

    “These findings, together with reports that the administration of dopamine antagonists reduces tic severity (50), suggest that hyperinnervation of the striatum by dopaminergic neurons may excessively stimulate the direct pathway while inhibiting the indirect pathway in individuals with Tourette’s syndrome, thereby contributing to their difficulty in regulating their tics (44).”
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    Phenomenological similarities between tics and compulsions and their common genetic basis suggest that Tourette's syndrome and pediatric OCD may be manifestations of the same underlying disease process, likely sharing a common neurobiological substrate.

    “These phenomenological similarities between tics and compulsions and their common genetic basis suggest that Tourette’s syndrome and pediatric OCD may be manifestations of the same underlying disease process, likely sharing a common neurobiological substrate.”
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    Both tics and compulsions present as habit-like behaviors that have escaped regulatory control.

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    OCD age of onset is likely bimodal, with one mode at 10 to 12 years and another in early adulthood.

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    Ongoing myelination increases the speed of neuronal communication, thus enhancing cognitive processing with increasing age.

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    Abnormal thinning of sensorimotor, primary motor, and premotor cortices in children with Tourette's is proportional to tic severity, and hypoplasia of the caudate nucleus occurs in children and adults with the disorder.

    “Other anatomical imaging studies have identified abnormal thinning of the sensorimotor, primary motor, and premotor cortices in children with Tourette’s syndrome, with the degree of thinning proportional to the severity of their tics (51), as well as hypoplasia of the caudate nucleus in children and adults with the disorder (16).”
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    Anatomical findings in Tourette's include decreased caudate volumes in children and adults and larger dorsolateral prefrontal cortices in children but not adults, relative to age-matched comparison subjects.

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    Different imaging findings across children and adults with Tourette's syndrome may be produced by compensatory behavioral, cognitive, or emotional processes more developed in adults with longer illness.

    “Thus, different imaging findings across children and adults with Tourette’s syndrome, for instance, may be produced by compensatory behavioral, cognitive, or emotional processes that may be more developed in adults who have had the illness longer (15).”
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    Impaired frontally mediated inhibitory reserve confers a need for increased functional recruitment of these cortices to overcome enduring difficulties with self-regulation during self-regulatory tasks.

    “Presumably, impaired frontally mediated inhibitory reserve confers a need for increased functional recruitment of these cortices in order to overcome enduring difficulties with self-regulation during performance of self-regulator tasks (17).”
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    The prefrontal portions of cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuits project to specific striatal regions, which project to specific regions of the internal globus pallidus and substantia nigra pars reticulata; these nuclei project to thalamus, which projects back to cortex.

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    The larger dorsolateral prefrontal volumes in children with Tourette's accompanied less severe tic symptoms and may represent a compensatory or adaptive process that attenuates tics.

    “The larger dorsolateral prefrontal volumes in children have accompanied less severe tic symptoms (15) and therefore may have represented a compensatory or adaptive process that attenuates tics, consistent with the role of the prefrontal cortex in inhibiting inappropriate impulses or behaviors.”
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    These findings include anatomical abnormalities in orbitofrontal cortices of adults with OCD, development of OCD following naturalistic lesions of orbitofrontal cortex, and improvement after neurosurgical lesions of white matter tracts to/from orbitofrontal cortex.

    “These findings include anatomical abnormalities in orbitofrontal cortices of adults with OCD, the development of OCD following various naturalistic lesions of the orbitofrontal cortex, and the improvement in symptoms following neurosurgical lesions of white matter tracts leading to and from the orbitofrontal cortex (68).”
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    Undiagnosed comorbid tic disorders could account for striatal abnormalities in children with OCD and adults with childhood-onset OCD.

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    Most adolescents in this small sample were taking SSRIs, which may have blunted their error-related activity.

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    Self-regulatory impairments on Stroop, go/no-go, and oculomotor suppression tasks correlate with symptom severity in OCD, suggesting that increasing functional disturbances in self-regulatory circuits may produce more severe symptoms.

    “Furthermore, self-regulatory impairments on Stroop, go/no-go (56), and oculomotor suppression tasks (58) correlate with the severity of symptoms, suggesting that increasing degrees of functional disturbances in self-regulatory circuits may produce increasingly more severe symptoms.”
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    Children with OCD continued to show error-related hyperactivity of anterior cingulate after successful cognitive behavior therapy, suggesting higher activity following errors may be a trait-like disturbance in OCD.

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    One event-related potential study reported increased error-related anterior cingulate activity in children with OCD relative to healthy children, although activation did not correlate with symptom severity.

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    Greater activation of orbitofrontal cortices during symptom provocation in adults with OCD was associated with a smaller increase in reported symptoms, suggesting activation may have inhibited rather than caused symptoms.

    “Greater activation of orbitofrontal cortices during symptom provocation in adults with OCD was in fact associated with a smaller increase in reported symptoms (65), suggesting that activation of orbitofrontal cortices may have inhibited rather than caused symptoms.”
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    OCD symptoms may represent an incapacity to shift or self-regulate attentional resources away from obsessions, and a failure to regulate compulsory behaviors.

    “OCD symptoms may represent an individual’s incapacity to shift or self-regulate attentional resources away from his or her focus on obsessions (57), as well as a failure to regulate compulsory behaviors, similar to the failure to regulate tic behaviors in persons with Tourette’s syndrome.”
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    Alternatively, hyperactivation could represent attempts to inhibit compulsions or suppress behavioral withdrawal during scanning.

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    Increased activity within frontostriatal circuits during symptom provocation suggests that hyperactivity in these circuits generates OCD symptoms.

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    Reports of increased gray matter in orbitofrontal cortex of children with OCD contrast with reduced orbitofrontal volume in adults.

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    Mood instability and impulsive, aggressive, and compulsory behaviors are common in bulimia, perhaps indicating more pervasive self-regulation difficulties.

    “Mood instability and impulsive, aggressive, and compulsory behaviors are common in individuals with bulimia, perhaps indicating the presence of more pervasive difficulties in self-regulation (76).”
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    The functioning of these circuits has not been investigated longitudinally in OCD, and only two fMRI studies have assessed them in younger patients, precluding understanding of developmental origins.

    “The functioning of these circuits has not been investigated longitudinally in patients with OCD, however, and only two fMRI studies to date have assessed the functioning of these circuits in younger patients (73, 74), thereby precluding our understanding of the developmental origins of frontostriatal disturbances in OCD.”
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    Although fMRI studies suggest anorexia may involve dysfunction in reward circuits, reward processing has not been assessed systematically in bulimia.

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    Whereas Tourette's pathogenesis involves frontostriatal circuits consisting of motor and premotor cortices and dorsal striatum, OCD seems to involve disturbances in orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate portions of frontostriatal circuits.

    “Whereas the pathogenesis of Tourette’s syndrome involves frontostriatal circuits consisting of motor and premotor cortices and the dorsal striatum, OCD seems to involve disturbances in the orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate portions of frontostriatal circuits.”
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    Interactions with aesthetic cultural ideals of thinness and physical fitness likely produce purging behaviors to counteract weight gain from binge eating.

    “Interactions with the aesthetic cultural ideals of thinness and physical fitness then likely produce purging behaviors to counteract the weight gain that binge eating would otherwise produce.”
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    Consumption of food is associated with increased dopamine release in reward circuits, and increases in dopamine are associated with more motivated food-seeking behavior in rats and humans.

    “The consumption of food is associated with increased dopamine release in these reward circuits (89), and increases in dopamine are associated with more motivated (food seeking) behavior in rats (90) and humans (91).”
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    Serotonergic disturbances have been documented in both ill and recovered individuals with bulimia, suggesting they may be trait-like.

    “Moreover, serotonergic disturbances have been documented in both ill (82) and recovered (83) individuals with bulimia, suggesting that these may be trait-like disturbances in this population.”
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    Conflict-related activation of anterior cingulate following correct responses could represent exaggerated arousal or greater anxiety relative to comparison subjects during challenging tasks.

    “Conflict-related activation of the anterior cingulate cortex following correct responses (71) could similarly represent exaggerated arousal or even greater anxiety relative to comparison subjects while performing challenging tasks in an experimental setting.”
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    Evidence suggests that frontostriatal circuits including orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate cortices are functionally abnormal in adults with OCD and likely contribute to their symptoms of impaired regulation.

    “Evidence suggests that the frontostriatal circuits that include the orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate cortices are functionally abnormal in adults with OCD and likely contribute to their symptoms of impaired regulation.”
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    Serotonergic abnormalities may contribute to feeding disturbances and to high impulsivity in bulimia, consistent with literature linking serotonin abnormalities with impulsivity.

    “Serotonergic abnormalities may contribute not only to feeding disturbances (84), but also to the high levels of impulsivity reported in persons with bulimia (85), consistent with a vast literature linking serotonin abnormalities with impulsivity in both humans and animals (86).”
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    Feelings of hunger produce urges to binge, which may be released inappropriately by dysfunctional control systems to produce binge eating episodes.

    “Feelings of hunger in turn produce urges to binge, which may be released inappropriately by dysfunctional control systems to produce binge eating episodes.”
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    Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa have similar phenotypes and clinical courses.

    “Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa have similar phenotypes and clinical courses (25).”
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    Anorexia and bulimia appear to lie on a spectrum of self-regulatory control over feeding behaviors, with excessive control in anorexia restricting subtype, less control in anorexia binge/purge subtype, and paucity of control in bulimia.

    “Anorexia and bulimia therefore appear to lie on a spectrum of self-regulatory control over feeding behaviors, with excessive control present in anorexia restricting subtype, less control present in anorexia binge/purge subtype, and a paucity of control in bulimia (101).”
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    Healthy participants in that task instead showed stronger ventral striatal responses to positive feedback, matching earlier evidence that this region responds to reward rather than punishment in healthy people.

    “Healthy participants, in contrast, activated the ventral striatum preferentially in response to positive feedback, consistent with prior findings of ventral striatal responses to reward but not punishment during this task in healthy participants (115).”
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    Rigid control over feeding behaviors in anorexia seems to suggest pathological self-regulation.

    “Their rigid control over feeding behaviors seems to suggest the presence of pathological self-regulation.”
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    These receptors mediate inhibitory and excitatory actions of 5-HT on cortical neurons; thus these alterations may produce further functional abnormalities in anterior cingulate cortex.

    “These receptors mediate, respectively, the inhibitory and excitatory actions of 5-HT on cortical neurons (108); thus these alterations may produce further functional abnormalities in the anterior cingulate cortex.”
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    Approximately one-third of adults with bulimia describe past histories of anorexia, and a significant proportion of patients with anorexia regularly binge eat or purge.

    “Approximately one-third of adults with bulimia describe past histories of anorexia (96), and a significant proportion of patients with anorexia regularly binge eat or purge (25).”
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    Alternatively, ritualistic behaviors in anorexia and OCD may represent a failure to regulate the behaviors themselves.

    “Alternatively, the ritualistic behaviors in anorexia and OCD may represent a failure to regulate the behaviors themselves.”
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    Phenotypic similarities such as intense preoccupation with food and high prevalence of OCD and obsessive-compulsive personality traits that predict poor outcome suggest anorexia and bulimia share neural substrates.

    “In addition, their phenotypic similarities, such as an intense preoccupation with food and a high prevalence of OCD and obsessive-compulsive personality traits (97–99) that predict poor outcome (100), suggest that these disorders share neural substrates.”
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    Both anorexia and bulimia primarily affect women and typically begin in adolescence.

    “Both primarily affect women, and both typically begin in adolescence.”
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    Higher D2 receptor numbers in anorexia may strengthen self-regulatory control and support food avoidance.

    “increases in the numbers of D2 receptors in persons with anorexia may enhance self-regulatory control and promote abstention from eating.”
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    Tourette's syndrome and OCD have relatively consistent prevalence and presentation across cultures.

    “whereas the clinical presentations of Tourette’s syndrome and OCD are relatively uniform in prevalence and presentation across cultures (123)”
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    There is current nosological controversy over whether mental disorders, especially developmental psychopathologies, are best classified categorically or dimensionally.

    “A current controversy in nosology is whether mental disorders, particularly developmental psychopathologies, are best characterized using a categorical or dimensional approach (124).”
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    Lower striatal D2 receptor numbers in obese people may weaken self-regulatory control and increase overeating.

    “Whereas decreases in the numbers of striatal D2 receptors in obese individuals (117) may reduce self-regulatory control and promote overeating”
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    Patients with anorexia or OCD commonly show unrealistically high standards and excessive concern about mistakes.

    “Unrealistically high personal standards and excessive concerns with making mistakes are common in patients with either anorexia or OCD (118, 119).”
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    If different frontostriatal portions are responsible for one disorder rather than another, categorical distinctions among these disorders may remain most appropriate.

    “However, if differing portions of frontostriatal circuits are indeed responsible for the development of one rather than another of these disorders, then categorical distinctions among them may still be most appropriate.”
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    Frontostriatal anatomical and functional disturbances may release urges, thoughts, and drives from inhibitory control, producing tics in Tourette's syndrome, obsessions in OCD, body-shape preoccupation in anorexia, or binge eating in bulimia.

    “anatomical and functional disturbances of frontostriatal systems may release them from inhibitory control to allow expression of the tics in Tourette’s syndrome, the obsessions in OCD, the preoccupation with body shape and weight in anorexia, or the binge eating in bulimia (Figure 1).”
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    • Rests on an assumption: In healthy people, self-regulation normally keeps sensory and motor urges, intrusive thoughts, hunger, and body-shape concerns under control.
    • Rests on an assumption: Sensory and motor urges, intrusive thoughts, hunger, and concern with body shape and weight occur in both healthy and ill people.
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    Interpretationreasoning

    The clinical features of Tourette's syndrome, OCD, bulimia, and anorexia indicate impaired control processes in each condition.

    “The clinical presentations of Tourette’s syndrome, OCD, bulimia, and anorexia suggest the presence of impaired control processes in each of these conditions”
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    In healthy people, self-regulation normally keeps sensory and motor urges, intrusive thoughts, hunger, and body-shape concerns under control.

    “Although a capacity for self-regulation keeps these urges, thoughts, and drives under control in healthy individuals”
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    Sensory and motor urges, intrusive thoughts, hunger, and concern with body shape and weight occur in both healthy and ill people.

    “Sensory and motor urges, intrusive thoughts, hunger, and concern with body shape and weight are common in both healthy and ill individuals.”
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    Obsessions in OCD, body-shape preoccupation in anorexia, and fear of weight gain from binge eating in bulimia are predominantly ego dystonic and therefore elicit compensatory behaviors that produce compulsions, starvation, or purging.

    “The obsessions in OCD, the obsessive preoccupation with body shape and weight in anorexia, and the fear of gaining weight from binge eating in bulimia are predominantly ego dystonic and therefore elicit compensatory behaviors that aim to alleviate the associated anxiety or discomfort, producing compulsions, starvation, or purging, respectively.”
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  • Greater frontostriatal activation has been demonstrated in unmedicated OCD patients during engagement of control and conflict resolution on the Simon task.

    “greater frontostriatal activation has been demonstrated in unmedicated OCD patients during engagement of control and conflict resolution on the Simon task 68.”
  • Alterations of anterior cingulate cortex-based frontal-striatal-thalamic circuitry for cognitive control and ventral medial frontal cortex-based circuitry for emotion processing during development may increase vulnerability for obsessive-compulsive disorder and other psychopathologies including Tourette's syndrome, eating disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

    “Alterations of ACC-based FSTC for cognitive control and vMFC-based FSTC for emotion processing during development may increase vulnerability for OCD, but also other forms of psychopathology, including Tourette's syndrome, eating disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder35.”

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  • Reported 5-HT2A alteration conflicts with the cited study title

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    The text says PET studies found altered 5-HT2A receptors in ill patients with anorexia, citing reference 106. That reference's title instead describes normal 5-HT2A receptor activity in ill patients.

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  1. Peterson BS, 2000, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 179
  2. Marsh R, Yazgan Y
  3. Wong DF, 1997, J Nucl Med, 38, 1243
  4. Kaye W, Strober M, Jimerson DC: The neurobiology of eating disorders, in The Neurobiology of Mental Illness. Edited by Charney D, Nestler EJ. New York,Oxford University Press, 2004, pp1112-1128
  5. Wolfe BE, 1997, Psychopharmacol Bull, 33, 345
  6. Mayer LE, 1998, J Clin Psychiatry, 59, 28
  7. Sasson Y, 1997, J Clin Psychiatry, 58, 7
  8. Casey BJ, 2001, Mechanisms of Cognitive Development: The Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition, vol 29, 327

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Authors
Marsh, R., Maia, T. V., & Peterson, B. S.
Affiliations
New York State Psychiatric Institute (US)
Venue
American Journal of Psychiatry
Published
2009-06
Volume
166
Issue
6
Pages
664-674
ISSN
  • 0002-953X (ISSN-L)
  • 1535-7228
OpenAlex
W2107177274
Cited by
187
References
129
Citations by year
2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 17
FWCI
2.65
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • American Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
  • U.S. Public Health Service (K-02-74677)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (K01MH077652, R01MH068318, MH 068318, R01MH090062)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
Keywords
frontostriatal circuits, childhood psychopathology, Tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, developmental neuroimaging, tics, obsession, binge eating, eating disorders, intrusive thoughts, body image
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Anorexia, Bulimia, Child, Corpus Striatum, Frontal Lobe, Tourette Syndrome, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Nerve Net, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Self Efficacy

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