Cortical Abnormalities Associated With Pediatric and Adult Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Findings From the ENIGMA Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Working Group.

Journal: The American journal of psychiatry

Volume: 175

Issue: 5

Year of Publication: 2019

Affiliated Institutions:  From the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam; Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam; Orygen, National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Melbourne; the Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; the Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan; the Department of Psychiatry, Bellvitge University Hospital, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomèdica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Barcelona; the Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona; the Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto; the Centre for Brain and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto; the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.; the Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; the Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil; Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Division of Neuroscience, Scientific Institute Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy; the Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin; the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India; the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich; the Magnetic Resonance Image Core Facility, IDIBAPS (Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer), Barcelona; the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic Universitari, Barcelona; the Department of Psychiatry, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China; the Institute of Human Behavioral Medicine, SNU-MRC, Seoul, Republic of Korea; the Laboratory of Neuropsychiatry, Department of Clinical and Behavioral Neurology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome; the Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam; the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam; the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Yeongeon Student Support Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey; Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; the Bascule, Academic Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Amsterdam; the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam; the Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.; the Department of Neuroradiology and the TUM-Neuroimaging Center (TUM-NIC), Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich; the Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques, August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona; the Department of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona; the SU/UCT MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa; the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical College, and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York; the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Psychiatry Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm; the Mood Disorders Clinic and the Anxiety Treatment and Research Center, St. Joseph's HealthCare, Hamilton, Ontario; the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; Centro Fermi-Enrico Fermi Historical Museum of Physics and Study and Research Center, Rome; ATR Brain Information Communication Research Laboratory Group, Kyoto, Japan; the Center for Mathematics, Computing, and Cognition, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil; the Center for OCD and Related Disorders, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York; the Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Health Sciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; the Beth K. and Stuart C. Yudofsky Division of Neuropsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; the Clinical Neuroscience and Development Laboratory, Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Hartford, Conn.; the Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; the James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, N.Y.; the Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Conn.; the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai, China; and the Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Abstract summary 

Brain imaging studies of structural abnormalities in OCD have yielded inconsistent results, partly because of limited statistical power, clinical heterogeneity, and methodological differences. The authors conducted meta- and mega-analyses comprising the largest study of cortical morphometry in OCD ever undertaken.T-weighted MRI scans of 1,905 OCD patients and 1,760 healthy controls from 27 sites worldwide were processed locally using FreeSurfer to assess cortical thickness and surface area. Effect sizes for differences between patients and controls, and associations with clinical characteristics, were calculated using linear regression models controlling for age, sex, site, and intracranial volume.In adult OCD patients versus controls, we found a significantly lower surface area for the transverse temporal cortex and a thinner inferior parietal cortex. Medicated adult OCD patients also showed thinner cortices throughout the brain. In pediatric OCD patients compared with controls, we found significantly thinner inferior and superior parietal cortices, but none of the regions analyzed showed significant differences in surface area. However, medicated pediatric OCD patients had lower surface area in frontal regions. Cohen's d effect sizes varied from -0.10 to -0.33.The parietal cortex was consistently implicated in both adults and children with OCD. More widespread cortical thickness abnormalities were found in medicated adult OCD patients, and more pronounced surface area deficits (mainly in frontal regions) were found in medicated pediatric OCD patients. These cortical measures represent distinct morphological features and may be differentially affected during different stages of development and illness, and possibly moderated by disease profile and medication.

Authors & Co-authors:  Boedhoe Premika S W PSW Schmaal Lianne L Abe Yoshinari Y Alonso Pino P Ameis Stephanie H SH Anticevic Alan A Arnold Paul D PD Batistuzzo Marcelo C MC Benedetti Francesco F Beucke Jan C JC Bollettini Irene I Bose Anushree A Brem Silvia S Calvo Anna A Calvo Rosa R Cheng Yuqi Y Cho Kang Ik K KIK Ciullo Valentina V Dallaspezia Sara S Denys Damiaan D Feusner Jamie D JD Fitzgerald Kate D KD Fouche Jean-Paul JP Fridgeirsson Egill A EA Gruner Patricia P Hanna Gregory L GL Hibar Derrek P DP Hoexter Marcelo Q MQ Hu Hao H Huyser Chaim C Jahanshad Neda N James Anthony A Kathmann Norbert N Kaufmann Christian C Koch Kathrin K Kwon Jun Soo JS Lazaro Luisa L Lochner Christine C Marsh Rachel R Martínez-Zalacaín Ignacio I Mataix-Cols David D Menchón José M JM Minuzzi Luciano L Morer Astrid A Nakamae Takashi T Nakao Tomohiro T Narayanaswamy Janardhanan C JC Nishida Seiji S Nurmi Erika E O'Neill Joseph J Piacentini John J Piras Fabrizio F Piras Federica F Reddy Y C Janardhan YCJ Reess Tim J TJ Sakai Yuki Y Sato Joao R JR Simpson H Blair HB Soreni Noam N Soriano-Mas Carles C Spalletta Gianfranco G Stevens Michael C MC Szeszko Philip R PR Tolin David F DF van Wingen Guido A GA Venkatasubramanian Ganesan G Walitza Susanne S Wang Zhen Z Yun Je-Yeon JY Thompson Paul M PM Stein Dan J DJ van den Heuvel Odile A OA

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Citations :  van den Heuvel OA, van Wingen G, Soriano-Mas C, Alonso P, Chamberlain SR, Nakamae T, Denys D, Goudriaan AE, Veltman DJ: Brain circuitry of compulsivity. Eur. Neuropsychopharmacol. 2016; 26:810–827
Authors :  74
Identifiers
Doi : 10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.17050485
SSN : 1535-7228
Study Population
Male,Female
Mesh Terms
Adolescent
Other Terms
Cortical Thickness;FreeSurfer;MRI;Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder;Surface Area
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Country of Study
Mali
Publication Country
United States