Obsessive-compulsive disorder: puzzles and prospects

TW Robbins, MM Vaghi, P Banca - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a severe and disabling psychiatric disorder that presents
several challenges for neuroscience. Recent advances in its genetic and developmental …

The mediodorsal thalamus: an essential partner of the prefrontal cortex for cognition

S Parnaudeau, SS Bolkan, C Kellendonk - Biological psychiatry, 2018 - Elsevier
Deficits in cognition are a core feature of many psychiatric conditions, including
schizophrenia, where the severity of such deficits is a strong predictor of long-term outcome …

Distinct subcortical volume alterations in pediatric and adult OCD: a worldwide meta-and mega-analysis

PSW Boedhoe, L Schmaal, Y Abe… - American Journal of …, 2017 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Structural brain imaging studies in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have
produced inconsistent findings. This may be partially due to limited statistical power from …

Orbitofrontal and striatal circuits dynamically encode the shift between goal-directed and habitual actions

CM Gremel, RM Costa - Nature communications, 2013 - nature.com
Shifting between goal-directed and habitual actions allows for efficient and flexible decision
making. Here we demonstrate a novel, within-subject instrumental lever-pressing paradigm …

Repeated cortico-striatal stimulation generates persistent OCD-like behavior

SE Ahmari, T Spellman, NL Douglass, MA Kheirbek… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Although cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical (CSTC) circuit dysregulation is correlated with
obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), causation cannot be tested in humans. We used …

Abnormal functional connectivity of default mode sub-networks in autism spectrum disorder patients

M Assaf, K Jagannathan, VD Calhoun, L Miller… - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are characterized by deficits in social and communication
processes. Recent data suggest that altered functional connectivity (FC), ie synchronous …

Striatal circuits, habits, and implications for obsessive–compulsive disorder

E Burguiere, P Monteiro, L Mallet, G Feng… - Current opinion in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Involvement of corticostriatal circuits in OCD is receiving strong new experimental
support.•This evidence is concordant with clinical evidence based on OCD patient …

Neurobiological model of obsessive–compulsive disorder: Evidence from recent neuropsychological and neuroimaging findings

T Nakao, K Okada, S Kanba - Psychiatry and clinical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) was previously considered refractory to most types
of therapeutic intervention. There is now, however, ample evidence that selective serotonin …

Higher media multi-tasking activity is associated with smaller gray-matter density in the anterior cingulate cortex

KK Loh, R Kanai - Plos one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Media multitasking, or the concurrent consumption of multiple media forms, is increasingly
prevalent in today's society and has been associated with negative psychosocial and …

Global resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging analysis identifies frontal cortex, striatal, and cerebellar dysconnectivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder

A Anticevic, S Hu, S Zhang, A Savic, E Billingslea… - Biological …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with regional hyperactivity
in cortico-striatal circuits. However, the large-scale patterns of abnormal neural connectivity …