title: Cortical thinning in obsessive compulsive disorder.
abstract: Although studies of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) over the last 20 years have suggested abnormalities in frontal-subcortical circuitry, evidences of structural abnormalities in those areas are still imperfect and contradictory. With recent advances in neuroimaging technology, it is now possible to study cortical thickness based on cortical surfaces, which offers a direct quantitative index of cortical mass. Using the constrained Laplacian-based automated segmentation with proximities (CLASP) algorithm, we measured cortical thickness of 55 patients with OCD (33 men and 22 women) and 52 age- and sex-matched healthy volunteers (32 men and 20 women). We found multiple regions of cortical thinning in OCD patients compared to the normal control group. Patients with OCD had thinner left inferior frontal, left middle frontal, left precentral, left superior temporal, left parahippocampal, left orbitofrontal, and left lingual cortices. Most thinned regions were located in the left ventral cortex system, providing a new perspective that this ventral cortical system may be involved in the pathophysiology of OCD.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience Center, SNU-MRC, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Yong-Wook
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: So Young
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Yoo
authors.forename: Jun Ki
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Tae Hyon
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Ha
authors.forename: Kyung Jin
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Jong Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: In Young
authors.initials: IY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sun I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jun Soo
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Kwon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001284:Atrophy / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D019636:Neurodegenerative Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology