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Changes in Volume of Subregions Within Basal Ganglia in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Study With Atlas-Based and
Jiaxiang Chen1, Chong Tian2, Qun Zhang3
1School of Medicine, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.
Background:
The role of basal ganglia in the pathogenesis of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) remains unclear. The studies on volume changes of basal ganglia in OCD commonly use the VBM method; however, the Atlas-based method used in such research has not been reported. Atlas-based method has a lower false positive rate compared with VBM method, thus having advantages partly.
Objectives:
The current study aimed to detect the volume changes of subregions within basal ganglia in OCD using Atlas-based method to further delineate the precise neural circuitry of OCD. What is more, we explored the influence of software used in Atlas-based method on the volumetric analysis of basal ganglia and compared the results of Atlas-based method and regularly used VBM method.
Methods:
We analyzed the brain structure images of 37 patients with OCD and 41 healthy controls (HCs) using the VBM method, Atlas-based method based on SPM software, or Freesurfer software to find the areas with significant volumetric variation between the two groups, and calculated the effects size of these areas.
Results:
VBM analysis revealed a significantly increased volume of bilateral lenticular nucleus in patients compared to HCs. In contrast, Atlas-based method based on Freesurfer revealed significantly increased volume of left globus pallidus in patients, and the largest effect size of volumetric variation was revealed by Freesurfer analysis.
Conclusions:
This study showed that the volume of bilateral lenticular nucleus significantly increased in patients compared to HCs, especially left globus pallidus, which was in accordance with the previous findings. In addition, Freesurfer is better than SPM and a good choice for Atlas-based volumetric analysis of basal ganglia.
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