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Deep brain stimulation restores frontostriatal network activity in obsessive-compulsive disorder

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Little is known about the underlying neural mechanism of deep brain stimulation (DBS). We found that DBS targeted at the nucleus accumbens (NAc) normalized NAc activity, reduced excessive connectivity between the NAc and prefrontal cortex, and decreased frontal low-frequency oscillations during symptom provocation in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Our findings suggest that DBS is able to reduce maladaptive activity and connectivity of the stimulated region.

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Figure 1: DBS normalizes brain activity in the NAc.
Figure 2: DBS normalizes excessive frontostriatal connectivity.
Figure 3: DBS modulates frontal low-frequency EEG oscillations in response to disease-related symptom-provoking stimuli.

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     Reanalysis accounting for electrode artifacts. The newly published Supplementary Figure 6 depicts normalized EPI scans from two DBS-implanted subjects illustrating that the nucleus accumbens ROI (red) and the region of signal dropout around the electrode are not overlapping. Nevertheless, we reanalyzed our data to further rule out the possibility that our results were affected by signal measured from the dropout region. We re-analyzed the data by removing the parts of the ROI that would extend into the electrode dropout region based on the normalized but unsmoothed functional images instead of T1-weighted scans. We then extracted the ROI time series from these unsmoothed images and correlated these with the smoothed remaining brain. Results from this reanalysis (Supplementary Table 6 and Supplementary Fig. 7) are similar to those of the first analysis—that is, DBS-induced decrease in functional connectivity between the NAc and mPFC/lPFC—confirming that our results are unlikely to reflect false positives related to electrode artifacts.

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This study was supported by grant 916.66.095 from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research ZON-MW VENI program. A.M. was supported from a VENI grant 016.115.196 from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Martijn Figee, Judy Luigjes, Ruud Smolders, Carlos-Eduardo Valencia-Alfonso, Guido van Wingen, Bart de Kwaasteniet, Mariska Mantione, Pieter Ooms, Pelle de Koning, Nienke Vulink, Nina Levar, Lukas Droge, Wim van den Brink, Ali Mazaheri & Damiaan Denys

  2. Brain Imaging Center, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Martijn Figee, Judy Luigjes, Ruud Smolders, Guido van Wingen, Bart de Kwaasteniet, Nina Levar & Aart Nederveen

  3. The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Carlos-Eduardo Valencia-Alfonso & Damiaan Denys

  4. Department of Neurosurgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Pepijn van den Munckhof & P Richard Schuurman

  5. Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Aart Nederveen

  6. Department of Psychiatry, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Matthijs Vink

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D.D. and M.F. conceived the study. M.F., R.S., C.-E.V.-A., A.N. and M.V. designed experiments. M.F., J.L. and B.d.K. conducted functional neuroimaging. M.F., J.L., M.V. and L.D. carried out neuroimaging data processing and analysis. R.S., N.L. and C.-E.V.-A. conducted EEG recording, data processing and analysis. N.V., P.d.K., M.M. and P.O. acquired behavioral data. P.v.d.M. and P.R.S. performed neurosurgery and edited the manuscript. M.F., J.L. and R.S. prepared the manuscript. D.D., W.v.d.B., G.v.W., A.N., P.v.d.M., P.R.S. and A.M. edited the manuscript.

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P.R.S. is an independent consultant for Medtronic Inc on educational matters and received travel grants from the company.

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Figee, M., Luigjes, J., Smolders, R. et al. Deep brain stimulation restores frontostriatal network activity in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Nat Neurosci 16, 386–387 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3344

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