2023
Brain activation during fear extinction recall in unmedicated patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Diniz J, Bazán P, Pereira C, Saraiva E, Ramos P, de Oliveira A, Reimer A, Hoexter M, Miguel E, Shavitt R, Batistuzzo M. Brain activation during fear extinction recall in unmedicated patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging 2023, 336: 111733. PMID: 37913655, DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2023.111733.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsObsessive-compulsive disorderExtinction recallNeutral stimuliFear conditioningFear extinction recallBlood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) responseFear conditioning experimentSkin conductance reactivitySpecific brain activation patternsBrain activation patternsSkin conductance responsesLevel-dependent responsesEntire sampleDACC activationUnmedicated adult patientsFear responsesBrain activationAversive stimuliLingual gyrusUnmedicated samplesActivation patternsHealthy participantsRecallOpercular cortexInsular cortex
2015
Reduced Prefrontal Activation in Pediatric Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder During Verbal Episodic Memory Encoding
Batistuzzo M, Balardin J, da Graça Morais Martin M, Hoexter M, Bernardes E, Borcato S, de Marco e Souza M, Querido C, Morais R, de Alvarenga P, Lopes A, Shavitt R, Savage C, Amaro E, Miguel E, Polanczyk G, Miotto E. Reduced Prefrontal Activation in Pediatric Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder During Verbal Episodic Memory Encoding. Journal Of The American Academy Of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2015, 54: 849-858. PMID: 26407495, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2015.06.020.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVerbal episodic memoryObsessive-compulsive disorderEpisodic memoryOrbitofrontal cortexPrefrontal cortexSemantic clusteringFunctional magnetic resonance imagingDorsomedial prefrontal cortexAltered brain activationDifferent neural mechanismsPathophysiology of OCDUnrelated wordsPrefrontal activationBrain activationWord listsExecutive dysfunctionNeural mechanismsTotal wordsCompulsive Scale scoresYale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale scoresStrategy scoresStrategy applicationMemoryCortexKey regions