Drinking reduction during cognitive behavioral therapy for alcohol use disorder is associated with a reduction in anterior insula‐bed nucleus of the stria terminalis resting‐state functional connectivity

Author(s):  
A. Benjamin Srivastava ◽  
Juan Sanchez‐Peña ◽  
Frances R. Levin ◽  
John J. Mariani ◽  
Gaurav H. Patel ◽  
...  
2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (9) ◽  
pp. 2222-2227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicco Reggente ◽  
Teena D. Moody ◽  
Francesca Morfini ◽  
Courtney Sheen ◽  
Jesse Rissman ◽  
...  

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for many with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). However, response varies considerably among individuals. Attaining a means to predict an individual’s potential response would permit clinicians to more prudently allocate resources for this often stressful and time-consuming treatment. We collected resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging from adults with OCD before and after 4 weeks of intensive daily CBT. We leveraged machine learning with cross-validation to assess the power of functional connectivity (FC) patterns to predict individual posttreatment OCD symptom severity. Pretreatment FC patterns within the default mode network and visual network significantly predicted posttreatment OCD severity, explaining up to 67% of the variance. These networks were stronger predictors than pretreatment clinical scores. Results have clinical implications for developing personalized medicine approaches to identifying individual OCD patients who will maximally benefit from intensive CBT.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document