SynthesisBiological psychiatry2019
Error Processing and Inhibitory Control in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Meta-analysis Using Statistical Parametric Maps.
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- Success versus failure in cognitive control: Meta-analytic evidence from neuroimaging studies on error processing.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Trans-ancestry meta-analysis of genome wide association studies of inhibitory control.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Inhibitory control in obsessive compulsive disorder: A systematic review and activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2022Pooled it
- Abnormal neural activities in adults and youths with major depressive disorder during emotional processing: a meta-analysis.Brain imaging and behavior · 2021Pooled it
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- Investigating the effects of brain stimulation on the neural substrates of inhibition in patients with OCD: A simultaneous tDCS - fMRI study.Translational psychiatry · 2025Trial
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- Changes in Brain Network Connections After Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Adolescents and Adults.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2024Trial
- Resting-State Connectivity and Response to Psychotherapy Treatment in Adolescents and Adults With OCD: A Randomized Clinical Trial.The American journal of psychiatry · 2023Trial
- Treatment-Specific Associations Between Brain Activation and Symptom Reduction in OCD Following CBT: A Randomized fMRI Trial.The American journal of psychiatry · 2021Trial
- Treating refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder with transcranial direct current stimulation: An open label study.Brain and behavior · 2020Trial
- Mechanisms of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors in Treatment-Resistant Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Cortico-Striatal Circuitry, Glutamatergic Dysregulation, and Neuroplastic Constraints.Molecular neurobiology · 2026Review
- Impaired midfrontal‑motor theta phase synchronization characterizes maladaptive motivational behavior in people with obsessive‑compulsive disorder.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- How the brain represents a romantic partner: Dissociable roles of the nucleus accumbens and anterior insula.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Vitamin D Deficiency and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Severity: A Cross-Sectional Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundError processing and inhibitory control enable the adjustment of behaviors to meet task demands. Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies report brain activation abnormalities in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) during both processes. However, conclusions are limited by inconsistencies in the literature and small sample sizes. Therefore, the aim here was to perform a meta-analysis of the existing literature using unthresholded statistical maps from previous studies.
methodsA voxelwise seed-based d mapping meta-analysis was performed using t-maps from studies comparing patients with OCD and healthy control subjects (HCs) during error processing and inhibitory control. For the error processing analysis, 239 patients with OCD (120 male; 79 medicated) and 229 HCs (129 male) were included, while the inhibitory control analysis included 245 patients with OCD (120 male; 91 medicated) and 239 HCs (135 male).
resultsPatients with OCD, relative to HCs, showed longer inhibitory control reaction time (standardized mean difference = 0.20, p = .03, 95% confidence interval = 0.016, 0.393) and more inhibitory control errors (standardized mean difference = 0.22, p = .02, 95% confidence interval = 0.039, 0.399). In the brain, patients showed hyperactivation in the bilateral dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, supplementary motor area, and pre-supplementary motor area as well as right anterior insula/frontal operculum and anterior lateral prefrontal cortex during error processing but showed hypoactivation during inhibitory control in the rostral and ventral anterior cingulate cortices and bilateral thalamus/caudate, as well as the right anterior insula/frontal operculum, supramarginal gyrus, and medial orbitofrontal cortex (all seed-based d mapping z value >2, p < .001).
conclusionsA hyperactive error processing mechanism in conjunction with impairments in implementing inhibitory control may underlie deficits in stopping unwanted compulsive behaviors in the disorder.
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