Striatal circuits, habits, and implications for obsessive–compulsive disorder
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Monteiro, Patricia
Mallet, Luc
Feng, Guoping
Burguiere, Eric
Graybiel, Ann M.
Date Issued
September 2014
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Current Opinion in Neurobiology
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Elsevier
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Burguiere, Eric, Patricia Monteiro, Luc Mallet, Guoping Feng, and Ann M Graybiel. “Striatal Circuits, Habits, and Implications for Obsessive–compulsive Disorder.” Current Opinion in Neurobiology 30 (February 2015): 59–65.
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Increasing evidence implicates abnormalities in corticostriatal circuits in the pathophysiology of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and OC-spectrum disorders. Parallels between the emergence of repetitive, compulsive behaviors and the acquisition of automated behaviors suggest that the expression of compulsions could in part involve loss of control of such habitual behaviors. The view that striatal circuit dysfunction is involved in OC-spectrum disorders is strengthened by imaging and other evidence in humans, by discovery of genes related to OCD syndromes, and by functional studies in animal models of these disorders. We highlight this growing concordance of work in genetics and neurobiology suggesting that frontostriatal circuits, and their links with basal ganglia, thalamus and brainstem, are promising candidates for therapeutic intervention in OCD.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2014.08.008
