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White matter abnormalities in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and their first-degree relatives.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Oct 2008
Menzies Lara, Williams Guy B, Chamberlain Samuel R, Ooi Cinly, Fineberg Naomi, Suckling John, Sahakian Barbara J, Robbins Trevor W, Bullmore Ed T
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OBJECTIVE: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common, heritable neuropsychiatric disorder, hypothetically underpinned by dysconnectivity of large-scale brain systems. The extent of white matter abnormalities in OCD is unknown, and the genetic basis of this disorder is poorly understood. The authors used diffusion tensor imaging, a magnetic resonance imaging technique, for examining white matter...
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