title: Can understanding the neurobiology of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) inform treatment?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We aim to provide a clinically focused review of the neurobiological literature in body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), with a focus on structural and functional neuroimaging.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There has been a recent influx of studies examining the underlying neurobiology of BDD using structural and functional neuroimaging methods. Despite obvious symptom similarities with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), no study to date has directly compared the two groups using neuroimaging techniques. Studies have established that there are limbic and visual cortex abnormalities in BDD, in contrast to fronto-striatal differences in OCD. Such data suggests affect or visual training maybe useful in BDD.
authors.affiliation: Professor, Deputy Director Brain and Psychological Sciences Research Centre, Swinburne University, Melbourne, VIC, and; Adjunct Professor, Psychiatry, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne and Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia srossell@srossell.com.
authors.forename: Susan L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Rossell
authors.affiliation: A/Professor, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Ben J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.affiliation: Professor, Chair of Psychiatry, St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, North Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Castle
mesh_terms: D057215:Body Dysmorphic Disorders / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans
keywords: MRI; body dysmorphic disorder; faces