Distinct Subcortical Volume Alterations in Pediatric and Adult OCD: A Worldwide Meta- and Mega-Analysis

Premika S W Boedhoe1, Lianne Schmaal1, Yoshinari Abe1

  • 1From the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam; Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, Free University/VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam; the Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan; the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto; the Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; the Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil; Clinical Research Group Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Division of Neuroscience, Scientific Institute Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan; the Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin; the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India; the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich; Magnetic Resonance Image Core Facility, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; the Department of Psychiatry, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China; the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, Korea; the Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam; the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town; the Department of Psychiatry, Bellvitge University Hospital, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomèdica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Barcelona; the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.; the Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey; De Bascule, Academic Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Amsterdam; the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam; the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; the Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich; TUM-Neuroimaging Center (TUM-NIC) of Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich; the Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, Hospital Clínic Universitari, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona; the Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; SU/UCT MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa; Columbia University Medical Center, New York; the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York; the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Psychiatric Research and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm; the Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; the Mood Disorders Clinic and the Anxiety Treatment and Research Center, St. Joseph's HealthCare, Hamilton, Canada; the Department of Neural Computation for Decision Making, ATR Brain Information Communiciation Research Laboratory Group, Kyoto, Japan; the Laboratory of Neuropsychiatry, Department of Clinical and Behavioral Neurology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome; the Center of Mathematics, Computation, and Cognition, Universidade Federal Do ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil; the Center for OCD and Related Disorders, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York; the Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Health Sciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; the Beth K. and Stuart C. Yudofsky Division of Neuropsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.; the Clinical Neuroscience and Development Laboratory, Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Hartford, Conn.; the Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; the James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, New York; the Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Conn.; the Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai; and the Department of Internal Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China.

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