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ArticleTranslational psychiatry2022

Imbalance between default mode and sensorimotor connectivity is associated with perseverative thinking in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Emily R Stern, Goi Khia Eng, Alessandro S De Nadai, Dan V Iosifescu, Russell H Tobe, Katherine A Collins

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Article in Translational psychiatry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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  1. Sensorimotor circuit connectivity as a candidate biomarker for responsiveness to sertraline in obsessive-compulsive disorder.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Emily R SternDepartment of Psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. emily.stern@nyulangone.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7805-594X
Goi Khia EngDepartment of Psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Alessandro S De NadaiDepartment of Psychology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA.
Dan V IosifescuDepartment of Psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2512-2835
Russell H TobeNathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7738-8344
Katherine A CollinsNathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA.
Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research · USTexas State University · US

Funding

Behavioral and Neural Heterogeneity in OCD and DepressionR01MH126981 · NIMH · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI STERN, EMILY R · 2021 to 2025
$3.7M
Neurobiology of sensory phenomena in obsessive-compulsive disorderR01MH111794 · NIMH · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI STERN, EMILY R · 2017 to 2021
$3.0M
The effects of ondansetron on neural systems and symptoms associated with sensory phenomenaR33MH107589 · NIMH · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI STERN, EMILY R · 2017 to 2019
$1.4M
The effects of ondansetron on neural systems and symptoms associated with sensory phenomenaR21MH107589 · NIMH · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI STERN, EMILY R · 2015 to 2016
$922k
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH111794NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH126981NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH107589NIMH NIH HHS R33 MH107589
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is highly heterogeneous. Although perseverative negative thinking (PT) is a feature of OCD, little is known about its neural mechanisms or relationship to clinical heterogeneity in the disorder. In a sample of 85 OCD patients, we investigated the relationships between self-reported PT, clinical symptom subtypes, and resting-state functional connectivity measures of local and global connectivity. Results indicated that PT scores were highly variable within the OCD sample, with greater PT relating to higher severity of the "unacceptable thoughts" symptom dimension. PT was positively related to local connectivity in subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), pregenual ACC, and the temporal poles-areas that are part of, or closely linked to, the default mode network (DMN)-and negatively related to local connectivity in sensorimotor cortex. While the majority of patients showed higher local connectivity strengths in sensorimotor compared to DMN regions, OCD patients with higher PT scores had less of an imbalance between sensorimotor and DMN connectivity than those with lower PT scores, with healthy controls exhibiting an intermediate pattern. Clinically, this imbalance was related to both the "unacceptable thoughts" and "symmetry/not-just-right-experiences" symptom dimensions, but in opposite directions. These effects remained significant after accounting for variance related to psychiatric comorbidity and medication use in the OCD sample, and no significant relationships were found between PT and global connectivity. These data indicate that PT is related to symptom and neural variability in OCD. Future work may wish to target this circuity when developing personalized interventions for patients with these symptoms.

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Magnetic Resonance ImagingObsessive-Compulsive DisorderGyrus CinguliHumansNeural PathwaysTemporal Lobe

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PMCPMC8755709
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