Inflammation in the Neurocircuitry of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

被引:143
作者
Attwells, Sophia [1 ,2 ]
Setiawan, Elaine [1 ]
Wilson, Alan A. [1 ,3 ]
Rusjan, Pablo M. [1 ]
Mizrahi, Romina [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Miler, Laura [1 ]
Xu, Cynthia [1 ]
Richter, Margaret Anne [3 ,4 ]
Kahn, Alan [1 ,3 ]
Kish, Stephen J. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Houle, Sylvain [1 ,3 ]
Ravindran, Lakshmi [3 ]
Meyer, Jeffrey H. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Campbell Family Mental Hlth Res Inst, Ctr Addict & Mental Hlth, Res Imaging Ctr, 250 Coll St,Ste B26, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada
[2] Univ Toronto, Dept Pharmacol & Toxicol, Toronto, ON, Canada
[3] Univ Toronto, Dept Psychiat, Toronto, ON, Canada
[4] Sunnybrook Hlth Sci Ctr, Frederick W Thompson Anxiety Disorders Ctr, Toronto, ON, Canada
基金
加拿大健康研究院;
关键词
POSITRON-EMISSION-TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSLOCATOR PROTEIN; PERIPHERAL BENZODIAZEPINE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; TOURETTE SYNDROME; BINDING-AFFINITY; BASAL GANGLIA; WHITE-MATTER;
D O I
10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.1567
中图分类号
R749 [精神病学];
学科分类号
100205 ;
摘要
IMPORTANCE For a small percentage of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) cases exhibiting additional neuropsychiatric symptoms, it was proposed that neuroinflammation occurs in the basal ganglia as an autoimmune response to infections. However, it is possible that elevated neuroinflammation, inducible by a diverse range of mechanisms, is important throughout the cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuit of OCD. Identifying brain inflammation is possible with the recent advance in positron emission tomography (PET) radioligands that bind to the translocator protein (TSPO). Translocator protein density increases when microglia are activated during neuroinflammation and the TSPO distribution volume (VT) is an index of TSPO density. OBJECTIVE To determine whether TSPO VT is elevated in the dorsal caudate, orbitofrontal cortex, thalamus, ventral striatum, dorsal putamen, and anterior cingulate cortex in OCD. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This case-control study was conducted at a tertiary care psychiatric hospital from May 1, 2010, to November 30, 2016. Participants with OCD (n = 20) and age-matched healthy control individuals (n = 20) underwent a fluorine F 18-labeled N-(2-(2-fluoroethoxy)benzyl)-N-(4-phenoxypyridin-3-yl)acetamide PET scan. It is a high-quality second-generation TSPO-binding PET radiotracer. All participants were drug and medication free, nonsmoking, and otherwise healthy. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES The TSPO VT was measured in the dorsal caudate, orbitofrontal cortex, thalamus, ventral striatum, dorsal putamen, and anterior cingulate cortex. Compulsions were assessed with the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale. RESULTS In the OCD and healthy groups, the mean (SD) ages were 27.4 (7.1) years and 27.6 (6.6) years, respectively, and 11 (55%) and 8 (40%) were women, respectively. In OCD, TSPO VT was significantly elevated in these brain regions (mean, 32%; range, 31%-36% except anterior cingulate cortex, 24%; analysis of variance, effect of diagnosis: P<.001 to P =.004). Slightly lower elevations in TSPO VT (22%-29%) were present in other gray matter regions. The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale measure of distress associated with preventing compulsive behaviors significantly correlated with TSPO VT in the orbitofrontal cortex (uncorrected Pearson correlation r = 0.62; P =.005). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE To our knowledge, this is the first study demonstrating inflammation within the neurocircuitry of OCD. The regional distribution of elevated TSPO VT argues that the autoimmune/neuroinflammatory theories of OCD should extend beyond the basal ganglia to include the cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuit. Immunomodulatory therapies should be investigated in adult OCD, rather than solely childhood OCD, particularly in cases with prominent distress when preventing compulsions.
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