A voxel-based analysis of cerebral blood flow abnormalities in obsessive-compulsive disorder using pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling MRI.

Daichi MomosakaOsamu TogaoAkio HiwatashiKoji YamashitaKazufumi KikuchiHirofumi TomiyamaTomohiro NakaoKeitaro MurayamaYuriko SuzukiHiroshi Honda

Published in: PloS one (2020)

The pCASL imaging noninvasively detected physiologically disrupted areas without structural abnormalities in OCD patients. The rCBF reductions observed in these regions in OCD patients could be associated with the pathophysiology of OCD.

Keyphrases

obsessive compulsive disorder
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
magnetic resonance imaging
high resolution
cerebral blood flow
deep brain stimulation
peritoneal dialysis
mass spectrometry
photodynamic therapy
density functional theory
diffusion weighted imaging