A preliminary morphometric magnetic resonance imaging study of regional brain volumes in body dysmorphic disorder. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Morphometric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to compare regional brain volumes in eight women with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and eight healthy comparison subjects. The BDD group exhibited a relative leftward shift in caudate asymmetry and greater total white matter vs. the comparison group. Findings with respect to the caudate nucleus are consistent with both the conceptualization of BDD as an obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder, and the 'striatal topography model' of obsessive-compulsive disorders.

publication date

  • January 20, 2003

Research

keywords

  • Brain
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Somatoform Disorders

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 12244311883

PubMed ID

  • 12589879

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 122

issue

  • 1