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Voxel-based morphometry multi-center mega-analysis of brain structure in social anxiety disorder.

ABSTRACT: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a prevalent and disabling mental disorder, associated with significant psychiatric co-morbidity. Previous research on structural brain alterations associated with SAD has yielded inconsistent results concerning the direction of the changes in gray matter (GM) in various brain regions, as well as on the relationship between brain structure and SAD-symptomatology. These heterogeneous findings are possibly due to limited sample sizes. Multi-site imaging offers new opportunities to investigate SAD-related alterations in brain structure in larger samples. An international multi-center mega-analysis on the largest database of SAD structural T1-weighted 3T MRI scans to date was performed to compare GM volume of SAD-patients (n = 174) and healthy control (HC)-participants (n = 213) using voxel-based morphometry. A hypothesis-driven region of interest (ROI) approach was used, focusing on the basal ganglia, the amygdala-hippocampal complex, the prefrontal cortex, and the parietal cortex. SAD-patients had larger GM volume in the dorsal striatum when compared to HC-participants. This increase correlated positively with the severity of self-reported social anxiety symptoms. No SAD-related differences in GM volume were present in the other ROIs. Thereby, the results of this mega-analysis suggest a role for the dorsal striatum in SAD, but previously reported SAD-related changes in GM in the amygdala, hippocampus, precuneus, prefrontal cortex and parietal regions were not replicated. Our findings emphasize the importance of large sample imaging studies and the need for meta-analyses like those performed by the Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium.

SUBMITTER: Bas-Hoogendam JM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6103329 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Voxel-based morphometry multi-center mega-analysis of brain structure in social anxiety disorder.

Bas-Hoogendam Janna Marie JM van Steenbergen Henk H Nienke Pannekoek J J Fouche Jean-Paul JP Lochner Christine C Hattingh Coenraad J CJ Cremers Henk R HR Furmark Tomas T Månsson Kristoffer N T KNT Frick Andreas A Engman Jonas J Boraxbekk Carl-Johan CJ Carlbring Per P Andersson Gerhard G Fredrikson Mats M Straube Thomas T Peterburs Jutta J Klumpp Heide H Phan K Luan KL Roelofs Karin K Veltman Dick J DJ van Tol Marie-José MJ Stein Dan J DJ van der Wee Nic J A NJA

NeuroImage. Clinical 20170830

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a prevalent and disabling mental disorder, associated with significant psychiatric co-morbidity. Previous research on structural brain alterations associated with SAD has yielded inconsistent results concerning the direction of the changes in gray matter (GM) in various brain regions, as well as on the relationship between brain structure and SAD-symptomatology. These heterogeneous findings are possibly due to limited sample sizes. Multi-site imaging offers new o ...[more]

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Voxel-based morphometry multi-center mega-analysis of brain structure in social anxiety disorder.

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