Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Comment
. 2017 Jun 1;174(6):597-599.
doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.17010019r.

Association and Causation in Brain Imaging in the Case of OCD: Response to McKay et al

Premika S W Boedhoe  1 , Lianne Schmaal  1 , David Mataix-Cols  1 , Neda Jahanshad  1 ; ENIGMA OCD Working Group  1 ; Paul M Thompson  1 , Dan Stein  1 , Odile A van den Heuvel  1
Collaborators, Affiliations
Comment

Association and Causation in Brain Imaging in the Case of OCD: Response to McKay et al

Premika S W Boedhoe et al. Am J Psychiatry. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Brain Imaging Techniques; Causality; Neurodevelopmental Disorder; Neuroimaging; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Structural MRI.

PubMed Disclaimer

Comment on

  • Distinct Subcortical Volume Alterations in Pediatric and Adult OCD: A Worldwide Meta- and Mega-Analysis.
    Boedhoe PS, Schmaal L, Abe Y, Ameis SH, Arnold PD, Batistuzzo MC, Benedetti F, Beucke JC, Bollettini I, Bose A, Brem S, Calvo A, Cheng Y, Cho KI, Dallaspezia S, Denys D, Fitzgerald KD, Fouche JP, Giménez M, Gruner P, Hanna GL, Hibar DP, Hoexter MQ, Hu H, Huyser C, Ikari K, Jahanshad N, Kathmann N, Kaufmann C, Koch K, Kwon JS, Lazaro L, Liu Y, Lochner C, Marsh R, Martínez-Zalacaín I, Mataix-Cols D, Menchón JM, Minuzzi L, Nakamae T, Nakao T, Narayanaswamy JC, Piras F, Piras F, Pittenger C, Reddy YC, Sato JR, Simpson HB, Soreni N, Soriano-Mas C, Spalletta G, Stevens MC, Szeszko PR, Tolin DF, Venkatasubramanian G, Walitza S, Wang Z, van Wingen GA, Xu J, Xu X, Yun JY, Zhao Q; ENIGMA OCD Working Group; Thompson PM, Stein DJ, van den Heuvel OA. Boedhoe PS, et al. Am J Psychiatry. 2017 Jan 1;174(1):60-69. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.16020201. Epub 2016 Sep 9. Am J Psychiatry. 2017. PMID: 27609241 Free PMC article.
  • Association and Causation in Brain Imaging: The Case of OCD.
    McKay D, Abramovitch A, Abramowitz JS, Deacon B. McKay D, et al. Am J Psychiatry. 2017 Jun 1;174(6):597. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.17010019. Am J Psychiatry. 2017. PMID: 28565955 No abstract available.

References

    1. Button KS, Ioannidis JPA, Mokrysz C, et al.: Power failure: why smallsample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience. Nat Rev Neurosci 2013; 14:365–376 - PubMed
    1. Cohen J: Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences, 2nded. Mahway, NJ, Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 1988, pp 20–26
    1. Zheng J, Erzurumluoglu AM, Elsworth BL, et al.: LD Hub: a centralized database and web interface to perform LD score regression that maximizes the potential of summary level GWAS data for SNP heritability and genetic correlation analysis. Bioinformatics 2017; 33:272–279 - PMC - PubMed
    1. Naj AC: Alzheimer’s disease sequencing project: case-control analyses. Alzheimers Dement 2016; 12(July suppl):322
    1. van Erp TGM, Hibar DP, Rasmussen JM, et al.: Subcortical brainvolume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium. Mol Psychiatry 2016; 21:547–553; correction, 2016; 21:585 - PMC - PubMed