RESUMEN
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is a neurosurgical procedure that can reduce symptoms in medically intractable obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Conceptually, DBS of the ventral capsule/ventral striatum (VC/VS) region targets reciprocal excitatory connections between the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and thalamus, decreasing abnormal reverberant activity within the OFC-caudate-pallidal-thalamic circuit. In this study, we investigated these connections using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) on human connectome datasets of twenty-nine healthy young-adult volunteers with two-tensor unscented Kalman filter based tractography. We studied the morphology of the lateral and medial orbitofrontothalamic connections and estimated their topographic variability within the VC/VS region. Our results showed that the morphology of the individual orbitofrontothalamic fibers of passage in the VC/VS region is complex and inter-individual variability in their topography is high. We applied this method to an example OCD patient case who underwent DBS surgery, formulating an initial proof of concept for a tractography-guided patient-specific approach in DBS for medically intractable OCD. This may improve on current surgical practice, which involves implanting all patients at identical stereotactic coordinates within the VC/VS region.
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Estimulación Encefálica Profunda , Trastorno Obsesivo Compulsivo/diagnóstico por imagen , Trastorno Obsesivo Compulsivo/terapia , Corteza Prefrontal/diagnóstico por imagen , Tálamo/diagnóstico por imagen , Estriado Ventral/diagnóstico por imagen , Adulto , Conectoma , Conjuntos de Datos como Asunto , Imagen de Difusión por Resonancia Magnética , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Vías Nerviosas/diagnóstico por imagen , Vías Nerviosas/fisiopatología , Vías Nerviosas/cirugía , Procedimientos Neuroquirúrgicos , Trastorno Obsesivo Compulsivo/fisiopatología , Medicina de Precisión , Corteza Prefrontal/anatomía & histología , Corteza Prefrontal/fisiopatología , Corteza Prefrontal/cirugía , Cirugía Asistida por Computador , Tálamo/anatomía & histología , Tálamo/fisiopatología , Tálamo/cirugía , Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos X , Resultado del Tratamiento , Estriado Ventral/anatomía & histología , Estriado Ventral/fisiopatología , Estriado Ventral/cirugía , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
Subcaudate tractotomy (SCT) is a neurosurgical lesioning procedure that can reduce symptoms in medically intractable obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Due to the putative importance of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in symptomatology, fibers that connect the OFC, SCT lesion, and either the thalamus or brainstem were investigated with two-tensor tractography using an unscented Kalman filter approach. From this dataset, fibers were warped to Montreal Neurological Institute space, and probability maps with center-of-mass analysis were subsequently generated. In comparing fibers from the same OFC region, including medial OFC (mOFC), central OFC (cOFC), and lateral OFC (lOFC), the area of divergence for fibers connected with the thalamus versus the brainstem is posterior to the anterior commissure. At the anterior commissure, fibers connected with the thalamus run dorsal to those connected with the brainstem. As OFC fibers travel through the ventral aspect of the internal capsule, lOFC fibers are dorsal to cOFC and mOFC fibers. Using neuroanatomical comparison, tracts coursing between the OFC and thalamus are likely part of the anterior thalamic radiations, while those between the OFC and brainstem likely belong to the medial forebrain bundle. These data support the involvement of the OFC in OCD and may be relevant to creating differential lesional procedures of specific tracts or to developing deep brain stimulation programming paradigms.