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Trial reportNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2012

Gray matter volumes in obsessive-compulsive disorder before and after fluoxetine or cognitive-behavior therapy: a randomized clinical trial.

Marcelo Queiroz Hoexter, Fábio Luis de Souza Duran, Carina Chaubet D'Alcante, Darin Dean Dougherty, Roseli Gedanke Shavitt, Antonio Carlos Lopes, Juliana Belo Diniz, Thilo Deckersbach, Marcelo Camargo Batistuzzo, Rodrigo Affonseca Bressan and 2 more

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Trial report in Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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38citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 121 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Marcelo Queiroz HoexterDepartment and Institute of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil.
Fábio Luis de Souza Duran
Carina Chaubet D'Alcante
Darin Dean Dougherty
Roseli Gedanke Shavitt
Antonio Carlos Lopes
Juliana Belo Diniz
Thilo Deckersbach
Marcelo Camargo Batistuzzo
Rodrigo Affonseca Bressan
Euripedes Constantino Miguel
Geraldo Filho Busatto
Universidade de São Paulo · BRSapporo Medical University · JPHarvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · USUniversidade Federal de São Paulo · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Serotonin reuptake inhibitors and cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) are considered first-line treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, little is known about their modulatory effects on regional brain morphology in OCD patients. We sought to document structural brain abnormalities in treatment-naive OCD patients and to determine the effects of pharmacological and cognitive-behavioral treatments on regional brain volumes. Treatment-naive patients with OCD (n=38) underwent structural magnetic resonance imaging scan before and after a 12-week randomized clinical trial with either fluoxetine or group CBT. Matched-healthy controls (n=36) were also scanned at baseline. Voxel-based morphometry was used to compare regional gray matter (GM) volumes of regions of interest (ROIs) placed in the orbitofrontal, anterior cingulate and temporolimbic cortices, striatum, and thalamus. Treatment-naive OCD patients presented smaller GM volume in the left putamen, bilateral medial orbitofrontal, and left anterior cingulate cortices than did controls (p<0.05, corrected for multiple comparisons). After treatment with either fluoxetine or CBT (n=26), GM volume abnormalities in the left putamen were no longer detectable relative to controls. ROI-based within-group comparisons revealed that GM volume in the left putamen significantly increased (p<0.012) in fluoxetine-treated patients (n=13), whereas no significant GM volume changes were observed in CBT-treated patients (n=13). This study supports the involvement of orbitofronto/cingulo-striatal loops in the pathophysiology of OCD and suggests that fluoxetine and CBT may have distinct neurobiological mechanisms of action.

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Cognitive Behavioral TherapyAdultBrainFemaleFluoxetineHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedObsessive-Compulsive DisorderOrgan SizeSelective Serotonin Reuptake InhibitorsTreatment OutcomeFluoxetineSelective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors

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PMID22030709
PMCPMC3260985
OpenAlexW2015036471

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