101. Hippocampus and amygdalar volumes in patients with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
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Murad Atmaca, Hanefi Yildirim, Mehmet Gurkan Gurok, Mehmet Kilic, and Tuba Korucu
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Adult ,Male ,Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ,Compulsive Personality Disorder ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Hippocampus ,Hippocampal formation ,Amygdala ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Physiology (medical) ,Humans ,Medicine ,Personality ,In patient ,media_common ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Neurology ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Female ,Surgery ,Neurology (clinical) ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Neuroanatomy ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Objectives Moving from the point that there might be an association between the neuroanatomy of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, we decided to examine the volumes of hippocampus and amygdala of patients with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, which was previously evaluated in OCD patients by us. Methods Volumes of the hippocampus, and amygdala were measured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and healthy control subjects. Manual tracing was used. Results We detected that the mean left and right sides of hippocampus and amygdala volumes of the patients with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder were smaller than those of the healthy controls. Conclusion Consequently, our present results suggest that hippocampal and amygdalar structural abnormalities may be related to the neuroanatomy of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. However, it is required novel studies with larger sample.
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- 2019