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Subcortical brain volume, regional cortical thickness, and cortical surface area across disorders: findings from the ENIGMA ADHD, ASD, and OCD working groups

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Boedhoe, Premika S.W., van Rooij, Daan, Hoogman, Martine, Twisk, Jos W.R., Schmaal, Lianne, Abe, Yoshinari, Alonso, Pino, Ameis, Stephanie H. +216 more·2020·American Journal of Psychiatry

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OBJECTIVE: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are common neurodevelopmental disorders that frequently co-occur. The authors sought to directly compare these disorders using structural brain imaging data from ENIGMA consortium data. METHODS: -weighted whole-brain MRI data from healthy control subjects (N=5,827) and from patients with ADHD (N=2,271), ASD (N=1,777), and OCD (N=2,323) from 151 cohorts worldwide were analyzed using standardized processing protocols. The authors examined subcortical volume, cortical thickness, and cortical surface area differences within a mega-analytical framework, pooling measures extracted from each cohort. Analyses were performed separately for children, adolescents, and adults, using linear mixed-effects models adjusting for age, sex, and site (and intracranial volume for subcortical and surface area measures). RESULTS: No shared differences were found among all three disorders, and shared differences between any two disorders did not survive correction for multiple comparisons. Children with ADHD compared with those with OCD had smaller hippocampal volumes, possibly influenced by IQ. Children and adolescents with ADHD also had smaller intracranial volume than control subjects and those with OCD or ASD. Adults with ASD showed thicker frontal cortices compared with adult control subjects and other clinical groups. No OCD-specific differences were observed across different age groups and surface area differences among all disorders in childhood and adulthood. CONCLUSIONS: The study findings suggest robust but subtle differences across different age groups among ADHD, ASD, and OCD. ADHD-specific intracranial volume and hippocampal differences in children and adolescents, and ASD-specific cortical thickness differences in the frontal cortex in adults, support previous work emphasizing structural brain differences in these disorders.

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  • ADHD participants have smaller hippocampus volume relative to OCD and smaller intracranial volume relative to ASD and OCD.

    “An analysis of structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data from 48 cohorts with a total of over 12,000 participants showed that ADHD participants had smaller hippocampus volume relative to OCD which was related to IQ differences and smaller intracranial volume relative to ASD and OCD patients (Boedhoe et al., 2020).”

    From The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder (2021) · cites this paper as Boedhoe et al., 2020

    The Results (Disease-specific subcortical and cortical differences) report smaller hippocampal volume in children with ADHD than in children with OCD, and smaller intracranial volume in children and adolescents with ADHD than in those with ASD or OCD. The Discussion says IQ differences may explain the hippocampal finding; it does not establish that relationship. The citing sentence omits the age limits and says 48 cohorts, whereas the Methods report 151 cohorts. (LLM, conf=0.89)

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Boedhoe, P. S. W., van Rooij, D., Hoogman, M., Twisk, J. W. R., Schmaal, L., Abe, Y., Alonso, P., Ameis, S. H., Anikin, A., Anticevic, A., Arango, C., Arnold, P. D., Asherson, P., Assogna, F., Auzias, G., Banaschewski, T., Baranov, A., Batistuzzo, M. C., Baumeister, S., Baur-Streubel, R., Behrmann, M., Bellgrove, M. A., Benedetti, F., Beucke, J. C., Biederman, J., Bollettini, I., Bose, A., Bralten, J., Bramati, I. E., Brandeis, D., Brem, S., Brennan, B. P., Busatto, G. F., Calderoni, S., Calvo, A., Calvo, R., Castellanos, F. X., Cercignani, M., Chaim-Avancini, T. M., Chantiluke, K. C., Cheng, Y., Cho, K. I. K., Christakou, A., Coghill, D., Conzelmann, A., Cubillo, A. I., Dale, A. M., Dallaspezia, S., Daly, E., Denys, D., Deruelle, C., Di Martino, A., Dinstein, I., Doyle, A. E., Durston, S., Earl, E. A., Ecker, C., Ehrlich, S., Ely, B. A., Epstein, J. N., Ethofer, T., Fair, D. A., Fallgatter, A. J., Faraone, S. V., Fedor, J., Feng, X., Feusner, J. D., Fitzgerald, J., Fitzgerald, K. D., Fouche, J.-P., Freitag, C. M., Fridgeirsson, E. A., Frodl, T., Gabel, M. C., Gallagher, L., Gogberashvili, T., Gori, I., Gruner, P., Gürsel, D. A., Haar, S., Haavik, J., Hall, G. B., Harrison, N. A., Hartman, C. A., Heslenfeld, D. J., Hirano, Y., Hoekstra, P. J., Hoexter, M. Q., Hohmann, S., Høvik, M. F., Hu, H., Huyser, C., Jahanshad, N., Jalbrzikowski, M., James, A., Janssen, J., Jaspers-Fayer, F., Jernigan, T. L., Kapilushniy, D., Kardatzki, B., Karkashadze, G., Kathmann, N., Kaufmann, C., Kelly, C., Khadka, S., King, J. A., Koch, K., Kohls, G., Konrad, K., Kuno, M., Kuntsi, J., Kvale, G., Kwon, J. S., Lázaro, L., Lera-Miguel, S., Lesch, K.-P., Hoekstra, L., Liu, Y., Lochner, C., Louza, M. R., Luna, B., Lundervold, A. J., Malpas, C. B., Marques, P., Marsh, R., Martínez-Zalacaín, I., Mataix-Cols, D., Mattos, P., McCarthy, H., McGrath, J., Mehta, M. A., Menchón, J. M., Mennes, M., Martinho, M. M., Moreira, P. S., Morer, A., Morgado, P., Muratori, F., Murphy, C. M., Murphy, D. G. M., Nakagawa, A., Nakamae, T., Nakao, T., Namazova-Baranova, L., Narayanaswamy, J. C., Nicolau, R., Nigg, J. T., Novotny, S. E., Nurmi, E. L., Weiss, E. O., O’Gorman Tuura, R. L., O’Hearn, K., O’Neill, J., Oosterlaan, J., Oranje, B., Paloyelis, Y., Parellada, M., Pauli, P., Perriello, C., Piacentini, J., Piras, F., Piras, F., Plessen, K. J., Puig, O., Ramos-Quiroga, J. A., Reddy, Y. C. J., Reif, A., Reneman, L., Retico, A., Rosa, P. G. P., Rubia, K., Rus, O. G., Sakai, Y., Schrantee, A., Schwarz, L., Schweren, L. J. S., Seitz, J., Shaw, P., Shook, D., Silk, T. J., Simpson, H. B., Skokauskas, N., Soliva Vila, J. C., Solovieva, A., Soreni, N., Soriano-Mas, C., Spalletta, G., Stern, E. R., Stevens, M. C., Stewart, S. E., Sudre, G., Szeszko, P. R., Tamm, L., Taylor, M. J., Tolin, D. F., Tosetti, M., Tovar-Moll, F., Tsuchiyagaito, A., van Erp, T. G. M., van Wingen, G. A., Vance, A., Venkatasubramanian, G., Vilarroya, O., Vives-Gilabert, Y., von Polier, G. G., Walitza, S., Wallace, G. L., Wang, Z., Wolfers, T., Yoncheva, Y. N., Yun, J.-Y., Zanetti, M. V., Zhou, F., Ziegler, G. C., Zierhut, K. C., Zwiers, M. P., the ENIGMA ADHD working group, the ENIGMA ASD working group, the ENIGMA OCD working group, Thompson, P. M., Stein, D. J., Buitelaar, J., Franke, B., & van den Heuvel, O. A.
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American Journal of Psychiatry
Published
2020-09-01
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177
Issue
9
Pages
834-843
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  • 0002-953X (ISSN-L)
  • 1535-7228
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W3034761030
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201
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  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, neurodevelopmental disorders, subcortical volume, cortical thickness, cortical surface area, hippocampal volume, intracranial volume, frontal cortex, structural brain differences, mega-analysis, age differences
MeSH terms
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Adolescent, Adult, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Child, Female, Humans, Human Development, Male, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Organ Size, Psychopathology, Systems Analysis, Cerebrum, Research Report, Neuroimaging

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