ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Medial and Lateral Orbitofrontal Cortex Metabolic Changes with Deep Brain Stimulation in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: An FDG-PET Study

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Neuroscience

  • Karianne Sretavan Wong
    Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
  • Amy Peters
    Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
  • Benjamin Greenberg
    Brown Medical School/Butler Hospital
  • Nicole McLaughlin
    Brown Medical School/Butler Hospital
  • Darin Dougherty
    Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Abstract

The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is a key area of neural dysfunction in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Using positron emission tomography with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose, we identified a reduction in metabolic activity in both the medial and lateral OFC following at least three months of deep brain stimulation at the ventral capsule/ventral striatum.

Psychopathology