Research Article

Decreased Nucleus Accumbens Connectivity at Rest in Medication-Free Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Table 2

Regions with abnormal functional connectivity with the accumbens in patients with OCD.

Cluster locationPeak (MNI)Number of voxels value

Seed: left accumbens
Bilateral OFC339−2749−4.4404
Bilateral MPFC24696198−6.2321
Bilateral lingual gyrus−21−96−397−4.5262
Bilateral precuneus9−724262−4.5731
Left superior parietal lobule−27−516342−3.9449
Seed: right accumbens
Left OFC−963−933−4.0701
Right fusiform243−4837−4.7571

The significance level was set at for multiple comparisons corrected by Gaussian random field (GRF) theory (voxel significance: , cluster significance: ). Age, sex, and the mean FD values were used as covariates to minimize the potential effects of these variables. MNI: Montreal Neurological Institute; OFC: orbitofrontal cortex; MPFC: medial prefrontal cortex.