Obsessive–compulsive (OC) symptoms are characterized by recurrent, persistent, and intrusive anxiety-provoking thoughts/images (obsessions) and subsequent repetitive behaviors (compulsions) performed to reduce anxiety and/or distress caused by obsessions. When a person has obsessions and/or performs compulsions for more than an hour a day and these thoughts and rituals significantly interfere with daily life routines, the person fulfills the criteria for obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). The lifetime prevalence of OCD is 0.5–2% (American Psychiatric Association, 1994; Grabe et al., Reference Grabe, Meyer, Hapke, Rumpf, Freyberger, Dilling and John2000), but obsessions are much more prevalent in the general population — as high as 72% (Rachman & de Silva, Reference Rachman and de Silva1978; Salkovskis & Harrison, Reference Salkovskis and Harrison1984) and the prevalence of OC symptoms reaches up to 20% (Fullana et al., Reference Fullana, Mataix-Cols, Caspi, Harrington, Grisham, Moffitt and Poulton2009).
Neuroimaging studies have indicated neurobiological changes underlying the psychological and behavioral dysfunction of OCD. Results from structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies mainly point to volume differences and altered regional brain activation in the ventral prefrontal cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, basal ganglia, anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and thalamus (Menzies et al., Reference Menzies, Chamberlain, Laird, Thelen, Sahakian and Bullmore2008; Radua & Mataix-Cols, Reference Radua and Mataix-Cols2009; Radua et al., Reference Radua, van den Heuvel, Surguladze and Mataix-Cols2010; Rotge et al., Reference Rotge, Guehl, Dilharreguy, Tignol, Bioulac, Allard and Aouizerate2009). These findings contributed to the widely accepted neuroanatomical model of OCD involving the direct and indirect cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical (CSTC) loops (Mataix-Cols & van den Heuvel, Reference Mataix-Cols and van den Heuvel2006; Saxena & Rauch, Reference Saxena and Rauch2000). It has been hypothesized that an imbalance between these loops, resulting in a hyperactive ventral and hypoactive dorsal frontal–striatal system, might mediate OC symptomatology (Mataix-Cols & van den Heuvel, Reference Mataix-Cols and van den Heuvel2006; Saxena & Rauch, Reference Saxena and Rauch2000).
In spite of the convergence on the same brain regions, inconsistencies in the direction of OCD effects have been reported for volumetric differences of the implicated brain areas (larger vs. smaller) as well as their metabolism (hypo- or hyperactivation; Friedlander & Desrocher, Reference Friedlander and Desrocher2006; Menzies et al., Reference Menzies, Chamberlain, Laird, Thelen, Sahakian and Bullmore2008). These inconsistencies might be due to methodological differences between studies (e.g., differences in sample size, scanning modalities/parameters, and analysis methods), but they may also reflect heterogeneity in the patient groups scanned. For instance, we have shown that brain regions were affected differently in subjects characterized by high environmental risk for OC symptoms than in those characterized by high genetic risk for OC symptoms (den Braber et al., Reference den Braber, van ‘t Ent, Cath, Wagner, Boomsma and de Geus2010, Reference den Braber, van't Ent, Boomsma, Cath, Veltman, Thompson and de Geus2011). Here we hypothesize that sex is a second potential source of heterogeneity. The brains of males and females begin to differ in an early developmental stage through the action of sex-specific factors such as hormonal, genetic, and epigenetic factors (McCarthy & Arnold, Reference McCarthy and Arnold2011), and sex-specific maturation continues during puberty and adolescence (Sisk & Zehr, Reference Sisk and Zehr2005). Postmortem and in vivo imaging studies of both children and adults consistently reported that males have approximately 9–12% larger brain volumes than females. Apart from global volume differences, regional sexual dimorphisms have also been reported, primarily for areas with high numbers of sex steroid receptors. After correcting for total brain volume, males tend to have larger gray matter volumes in the amygdala and hypothalamus, whereas females tend to have larger orbitofrontal, hippocampal, and caudate volumes (for review, see Cosgrove et al., Reference Cosgrove, Mazure and Staley2007; Lenroot & Giedd, Reference Lenroot and Giedd2010). Sex-specific differences in the healthy brain also highlight the need to evaluate sex differences in the association of brain structure with neuropsychiatric disorders, especially those that differ in prevalence and/or symptoms between males and females such as OCD (Bogetto et al., Reference Bogetto, Venturello, Albert, Maina and Ravizza1999; Castle et al., Reference Castle, Deale and Marks1995; Labad et al., Reference Labad, Menchon, Alonso, Segalas, Jimenez, Jaurrieta and Vallejo2008; Lensi et al., Reference Lensi, Cassano, Correddu, Ravagli, Kunovac and Akiskal1996; Noshirvani et al., Reference Noshirvani, Kasvikis, Marks, Tsakiris and Monteiro1991; Tukel et al., Reference Tukel, Polat, Genc, Bozkurt and Atli2004).
The present study examines differences between males and females with low or high OC symptomatology, focusing specifically on gray matter volumes. Our study design included twin pairs who were discordant for OC symptoms or concordant for either high or low OC symptoms, including a group of 24 opposite-sex twin pairs. We hypothesize to find sex moderation of OC symptomatology effects in brain areas that were already implicated in OC symptoms in mixed male–female samples and have high levels of sex steroid receptors, that is, the striatum, thalamus, insula, ACC, and frontal, temporolimbic, and parietal areas. We further explore the existence of ‘crossed line interactions’ where an opposite effect of OC symptomatology in males and females may have acted to hide a main effect in mixed sex samples.
Methods and Materials
Participants
Participants were recruited from an ongoing study in the Netherlands Twin Register (NTR) that investigates environmental and genetic influences on OC symptoms (den Braber et al., Reference den Braber, van ‘t Ent, Cath, Wagner, Boomsma and de Geus2010). Surveys were sent to twin families, including the Padua Inventory Abbreviated (PI-R-ABBR; Cath et al., Reference Cath, van Grootheest, Willemsen, van Oppen and Boomsma2008; van Oppen et al., Reference van Oppen, Hoekstra and Emmelkamp1995). Completed PI-R-ABBR questionnaires were returned by 20,204 subjects (including 9,512 twins and 2,403 siblings). From this sample we selected twin and sibling pairs in the age range of 18 to 60 years who scored very high (5 opposite-sex twin pairs, 13 siblings, and 23 monozygotic twin pairs), very low (19 opposite-sex and 28 monozygotic twin pairs), or very discordant (20 monozygotic twin pairs) for OC symptoms. A subject was classified as high scoring for OC symptoms if the PI-R-ABBR score was ≥15. A subject was classified as low scoring for OC symptoms if the PI-R-ABBR score was ≤7. These PI-R-ABBR cutoff scores were derived from sensitivity and specificity measurements in an independent sample of OCD patients when compared with clinical controls (n = 120; mean scores 20.7, SD 8.1, sensitivity 0.74, and specificity 0.72 at the best cutoff point of 16; Cath et al., Reference Cath, van Grootheest, Willemsen, van Oppen and Boomsma2008). Exclusion criteria were brain damage, neurological disease, and contraindications for MRI (e.g., pregnancy, ferromagnetic fragments, clips and devices in the body, and claustrophobia). A final number of 203 subjects participated in our MRI study, including 58 high-scoring females, 31 high-scoring males, 73 low-scoring females and 41 low-scoring males (Table 1).
TABLE 1 Sample Characteristics
Age: age at the time of MRI examination (in years); Educational attainment (% low/middle/high): percentage of obsessive–compulsive (OC) symptom high-scoring males, OC symptom low-scoring males, OC symptom high-scoring females, and OC symptom low-scoring females with low, middle, or high educational level. PI-R-ABBR: mean Padua Inventory Abbreviated scores (SD); Y-BOCS severity lifetime: mean Yale–Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale severity scores (SD) across whole life span; Y-BOCS symptoms: mean number of symptoms indicated within the aggressive/checking, hoarding/saving, symmetry/ordering, washing/cleaning, sexual/religious, and somatic symptom dimensions. MINI (depression, panic disorder, agoraphobia, social disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder): number of subjects with current comorbid disorder (measured using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview); Tic: mean tic scores (SD) at the time of MRI; BDI: mean Beck Depression Inventory scores (SD) at the time of MRI; STAI: mean State Trait Anxiety Inventory scores (SD) at the time of MRI; STAS: mean State Trait Anger Scale scores (SD) at the time of MRI.
*Significant at <0.05 Bonferroni corrected.
#Significant difference in distribution between groups tested using Chi-square, Fisher's exact test.
Protocol
Participants were administered diagnostic interviews and questionnaires, including questions on demography, life-events, an adapted form of the Yale–Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale (Goodman et al., Reference Goodman, Price, Rasmussen, Mazure, Delgado, Heninger and Charney1989a, Reference Goodman, Price, Rasmussen, Mazure, Fleischmann, Hill and Charney1989b) to measure both lifetime and current OC symptoms, and severity, the State Trait Anxiety Inventory and State Trait Anger Scale (Spielberger et al., Reference Spielberger, Gorsuch and Lusehe1970, Reference Spielberger, Jacobs, Russell and Crane1983), and the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI; Sheehan et al., Reference Sheehan, Lecrubier, Sheehan, Amorim, Janavs, Weiller and Dunbar1998) to test for possible comorbidities. Comorbidities tested by the MINI include depression, panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. Depressive symptoms were furthermore measured using the 13-item Beck Depression Inventory Short Form (BDI-R; Beck et al., Reference Beck, Ward, Mendelson, Mock and Erbaugh1961, Reference Beck, Rial and Rickels1974). In addition, participants were screened for the eight most common tics (head shaking, eye blinking, other facial tics, shoulder raising, expressing swear words/foul language/dirty words, sound making, growling, and throat clearing/coughing/sniffing). The ethical review board of the VU University Medical Centre approved the study. All participants provided written informed consent.
Image Acquisition
The MRI session consisted of an anatomical scan of about 6 minutes. During the scan session, subjects were asked to minimize head movement. To reduce motion artifacts, each participant's head was immobilized using foam pads.
MRI was performed on a 3.0 T Intera MR system (Philips, Medical Systems, Best) with a standard SENSE receiver head coil. The anatomical scan consisted of 182 coronal slices with a 3D T1-weighted gradient-echo sequence (flip angle 8°; repetition time (TR) = 9.69 milliseconds echo time (TE) = 4.60 milliseconds matrix, 256 × 256 pixels; voxel size, 1.00 × 1.00 × 1.20 mm).
Data Analysis
MRI data were analyzed using SPM8 (Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, London, UK). T1-weighted MR images were segmented into gray matter, white matter, and cerebrospinal fluid, and normalized to a group template (i.e., a specific template created from the 203 subjects that participated) using the Diffeomorphic Anatomical Registration Through Exponential Lie algebra (DARTEL) algorithm, and subsequently warped from DARTEL space to the standard Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) brain. To preserve volumetric information, a modulation step was added. Before statistical analysis, the resultant modulated images were spatially smoothed with an 8-mm isotropic Gaussian kernel.
Statistical Tests
Differences in survey- and interview-based variables were tested using a mixed model analysis of variance (ANOVA; Mixed Models Linear menu item in SPSS) with sex (male vs. female) and OC symptom status (high vs. low) as two fixed factors, and family as a random factor to account for family dependence because the data were collected in twins and siblings. Differences in educational attainment and comorbidity were analyzed using Chi-square statistics (crosstabs; Chi-square, Fisher's exact option in SPSS). Statistical results were considered significant at p < .05, Bonferroni corrected.
Differences in regional gray matter volume were tested using the general linear model (full-factorial ANOVA) implemented in SPM8. The design consisted of two independent factors: OC symptom status (high or low scoring) and sex (male or female), and was used to determine the main effect of OC symptom status and the OC symptom status by sex interaction effect. To account for family dependence, brain maps of twin and co-twin of each concordant pair were entered as repeated measures to account for within-twin pair correlations of brain structure. The main effect of OC symptom status was assessed to acquire a general idea of volumetric brain differences between OC symptom high- and low-scoring subjects. The interaction effect of OC symptoms status by sex was assessed by the F-ratio from ANOVA and could be interpreted as OC symptom-related brain changes that are different in males and females. For significant interactions, we plotted the weighted mean voxel intensities and 90% confidence intervals (CI) for the most significant coordinate in the region separately for high-scoring and low-scoring males, and high-scoring and low-scoring females to reveal what could explain the observed interaction. Post-hoc tests comparing ‘high-scoring males with low-scoring males’ and ‘high-scoring females with low-scoring females’ for each coordinate derived from the interaction analysis were considered significant at p < .01.
All comparisons were performed with adjustments for total intracranial volume (i.e., the covariate; TIV). Because sex was partially confounded with comorbidity, in particular anxiety and depression (see Table 1), data were re-analyzed with total score on the 13-item Beck Depression Inventory Short Form as an additional covariate. Volumetric changes for the main effect of OC symptoms and the OC symptom by sex interaction effect were assumed significant at p < .001 uncorrected with a minimal cluster size of 10 voxels.
Results
Sample Characteristics
Sample characteristics are summarized in Table 1. As expected, OC symptom high-scoring subjects (regardless of sex) had significantly higher scores for measurements on OC symptomatology, including OC symptoms as measured with the PI-R-ABBR, as well as OC symptom severity measured with the Yale–Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale severity questionnaire. In addition, OC symptom high-scoring subjects were more often diagnosed with current comorbid disorders, mainly anxiety and depression. Furthermore, an interaction between ‘OC symptom score’ and ‘sex’ was found for anxiety and depression. This was due to higher levels of comorbid anxiety and depression in high-scoring females compared with high-scoring males.
Main Effect of Obsessive–Compulsive Symptoms
Differences in gray matter volumes between OC symptom high-scoring subjects and OC symptom low-scoring subjects, regardless of sex, are presented in Table 2 (left side). OC symptom high-scoring subjects had increased gray matter volumes in the right precentral and left middle temporal gyrus and decreased gray matter volumes in the left dorsolateral prefrontal gyrus, left insula, and right substantia nigra. The same results were obtained when depression scores were covaried for (Table 2, right side).
TABLE 2 Regional Gray Matter Differences in OCS High-Scoring Compared to OCS Low-Scoring Twins
(A) Clusters with regional gray matter differences between obsessive–compulsive (OC) symptom high and low-scoring twins. Test: test for significant gray matter increases (high > low) or decreases (high < low) in OC symptom high relative to OC symptom low-scoring twins; BA: Brodmann area; MNI coordinates (mm): location of voxel with the largest effect size; T-value: T-value of voxel with the largest effect size; p-value: cluster p-value; # voxels: number of voxels in cluster.
(B) Clusters with regional gray matter differences between OC symptom high and low-scoring twins after adjusting for the Beck-Depression Inventory scores.
Interaction Effects: OC Symptoms × Sex
To examine whether OC symptom related brain changes were different for males and females, the interaction effect of OC symptoms by sex was investigated. To reveal what could explain these interactions, weighted mean intensities (contrast estimates) and 90% confidence intervals were plotted for each significant coordinate derived from the interaction analysis (Figure 1). Post-hoc tests indicated that our finding of a regional enlargement in the left middle temporal gyrus in subjects scoring high for OC symptoms was completely driven by a larger gray matter volume for this region in OC symptom high-scoring males (Table 3, left side). In addition, a region within the right middle temporal gyrus was found to be larger in OC symptom high-scoring males, but reduced in OC symptom high-scoring females. This opposite finding in males and females acted to hide the OC symptom main effect in the right middle temporal gyrus. A region within the right precuneus was found to be larger in OC symptom high-scoring females, but reduced in OC symptom high-scoring males. This region was again not found in the OC symptom main effect. Same results were obtained when depression scores were covaried for (Table 3, right side).
FIGURE 1 Obsessive–compulsive (OC) symptom status-related brain changes that are different in males and females. Bar graphs indicate the weighted mean intensities (contrast estimates) and 90% confidence intervals (CI) for each coordinate derived from the OC symptom status by sex interaction test separately for the OC symptom high-scoring males (HM), OC symptom low-scoring males (LM), OC symptom high-scoring females (HF), and OC symptom low-scoring females (LF). Note: *Post-hoc tests (‘high-scoring males versus low-scoring males’ or ‘high-scoring females versus low-scoring females’) significant at p < .01; ns = post-hoc tests not significant. Diverging lines can act to reduce or hide the main effect. Crossing lines are likely to hide the main effect.
TABLE 3 Interaction effect of OCS × Sex in Regional Gray Matter
(A) Clusters showing obsessive–compulsive (OC) symptom-related brain changes that are different in males and females. F-value: F-value of voxel with the largest effect size.
(B) Clusters showing OC symptom-related brain changes that are different in males and females after adjusting for the Beck-Depression Inventory scores.
Discussion
This study investigated whether sex could be a potential source of heterogeneity in brain imaging outcomes on OC symptomatology. To assess how OC symptomatology affects the brain we first compared gray matter volumes from twins (and siblings) with high OC symptom scores with those from twins with low OC symptom scores, regardless of sex. Regions that were found to be larger in twins with high OC symptom scores included the right precentral and the left middle temporal gyrus, whereas the left dorsolateral prefrontal gyrus, the left insula, and the right substantia nigra were found to be reduced in OC symptom high-scoring twins. Our finding of a reduced dorsolateral prefrontal gyrus is consistent with previous studies (see meta-analysis by Radua & Mataix-Cols, Reference Radua and Mataix-Cols2009). Together with the substantia nigra, this region has been implicated in the dorsolateral prefrontal–striatal loop of the CSTC network (Cummings, Reference Cummings1993) that has been associated with OC symptomatology (Mataix-Cols & van den Heuvel, Reference Mataix-Cols and van den Heuvel2006). A reduced insular volume also replicates previous findings (Pujol et al., Reference Pujol, Soriano-Mas, Alonso, Cardoner, Menchon, Deus and Vallejo2004; Soriano-Mas et al., Reference Soriano-Mas, Pujol, Alonso, Cardoner, Menchon, Harrison and Gaser2007) and this structure has been mainly linked to OC symptomatology through its involvement in the neurocircuitry of disgust (Husted et al., Reference Husted, Shapira and Goodman2006).
The main focus of this article was whether OC symptom-related brain changes are different for males and females and whether this difference may have acted to hide or reduce a main effect in our study, or in the mixed sex samples studied previously. In order to investigate this, the interaction effect of OC symptoms by sex on gray matter volume was assessed. This OC symptom by sex interaction analysis indicates that our finding of increased left middle temporal volume in OC symptom high-scoring twins was completely driven by a larger gray matter volume for this region in OC symptom high-scoring males. The OC symptom by sex interaction analysis also revealed opposite effects of OC symptomatology in males and females for the right middle temporal gyrus and the right precuneus. OC symptom high-scoring males were found to have a larger right middle temporal gyrus, whereas in high-scoring females this region was reduced. Conversely, the right precuneus was found to be larger in OC symptom high-scoring females, but reduced in OC symptom high-scoring males. These opposite findings in males and females acted to hide the OC symptom main effect. The middle temporal gyrus is involved in verbal memory and auditory processing (Binder et al., Reference Binder, Rao, Hammeke, Yetkin, Jesmanowicz, Bandettini and Haughton1994; Boly et al., Reference Boly, Faymonville, Peigneux, Lambermont, Damas, Del and Laureys2004; Grasby et al., Reference Grasby, Frith, Friston, Bench, Frackowiak and Dolan1993), and precuneus function has been associated with higher order cognitive processes, including visuo-spatial processing, episodic memory retrieval, and planning (Cavanna & Trimble, Reference Cavanna and Trimble2006). Both regions have been implicated in the neuroanatomical model for OCD predominantly through their functional connections with the dorsal and ventral prefrontal cortex. However, results from structural and functional imaging studies have provided inconsistent results regarding the direction of anatomical and functional changes for these specific brain regions (Menzies et al., Reference Menzies, Chamberlain, Laird, Thelen, Sahakian and Bullmore2008).
Based on our results, we hypothesize that the use of mixed sex samples with unequal distribution of males and females between studies (e.g., more males in one study vs. more females in another study) may have contributed to these opposite findings. With regard to middle temporal and precuneus volumes, a review of the current literature supports our hypothesis directly. For example, Kim and colleagues (Reference Kim, Lee, Kim, Kim, Kim and Kwon2001) observed increased gray matter in the right temporal gyrus in a sample that included a higher number of males compared with females (patients: 17 males vs. 8 females), whereas Togao and colleagues (Reference Togao, Yoshiura, Nakao, Nabeyama, Sanematsu, Nakagawa and Honda2010) observed decreased gray matter for this region in a sample that included a higher number of females compared with males (patients: 9 males vs. 14 females). In addition, with respect to the right precuneus, Pujol and colleagues (Reference Pujol, Soriano-Mas, Alonso, Cardoner, Menchon, Deus and Vallejo2004) found a tendency toward decreased gray matter for this region in a sample that included more males than females (patients: 40 males vs. 32 females). This finding was replicated and found to be significant in a patient sample comprising 21 males and 9 females (Soriano-Mas et al., Reference Soriano-Mas, Pujol, Alonso, Cardoner, Menchon, Harrison and Gaser2007). This latter study also assessed the feasibility of classifying single subject cases of MRI data as OCD patients or healthy controls using their whole brain anatomy, and found that including gender in their analyses improved their classification accuracy (Soriano-Mas et al., Reference Soriano-Mas, Pujol, Alonso, Cardoner, Menchon, Harrison and Gaser2007), which further supports our finding that OC symptom-related brain changes can be different in males and females.
Previous studies have shown that OC symptomatology and its developmental trajectories tend to be distinct in males and females, where females tend to report more contamination obsessions and cleaning compulsions (Castle et al., Reference Castle, Deale and Marks1995; Labad et al., Reference Labad, Menchon, Alonso, Segalas, Jimenez, Jaurrieta and Vallejo2008; Lensi et al., Reference Lensi, Cassano, Correddu, Ravagli, Kunovac and Akiskal1996; Noshirvani et al., Reference Noshirvani, Kasvikis, Marks, Tsakiris and Monteiro1991; Tukel et al., Reference Tukel, Polat, Genc, Bozkurt and Atli2004), whereas symmetry, religious and sexual obsessions (Labad et al., Reference Labad, Menchon, Alonso, Segalas, Jimenez, Jaurrieta and Vallejo2008; Lensi et al., Reference Lensi, Cassano, Correddu, Ravagli, Kunovac and Akiskal1996; Tukel et al., Reference Tukel, Polat, Genc, Bozkurt and Atli2004), and an earlier onset of the disorder is more common in males (Bogetto et al., Reference Bogetto, Venturello, Albert, Maina and Ravizza1999; Castle et al., Reference Castle, Deale and Marks1995; Labad et al., Reference Labad, Menchon, Alonso, Segalas, Jimenez, Jaurrieta and Vallejo2008; Noshirvani et al., Reference Noshirvani, Kasvikis, Marks, Tsakiris and Monteiro1991; Tukel et al., Reference Tukel, Polat, Genc, Bozkurt and Atli2004). Interestingly, distinct neural correlates for these specific OC symptom dimensions have been found in both brain structure as well as brain function during specific symptom provocation (Mataix-Cols et al., Reference Mataix-Cols, Wooderson, Lawrence, Brammer, Speckens and Phillips2004; van den Heuvel et al., Reference van den Heuvel, Remijnse, Mataix-Cols, Vrenken, Groenewegen, Uylings and Veltman2009). The ‘male’ symmetry/ordering dimension was found to be negatively correlated with regional gray matter volume in the motor cortex, insula, and parietal cortex (which includes the precuneus) and positively correlated with temporal gray and white matter volume. The finding of a smaller precuneus and a larger middle temporal lobe in the males with high OC symptomatology, with opposite or no effects in females, suggests that the brain regions differentially affected in males and females may be intimately connected to the difference in patterns of OC symptomatology between sexes.
In summary, this study shows that OC symptom-related changes in the left middle temporal gyrus, right middle temporal gyrus, and right precuneus are different for males and females. These findings might, in part, explain inconsistencies in the previous literature and show the importance of taking sex into account when investigating the neurobiology of OC symptoms.
Acknowledgments
We thank Gabriëlla Blokland, Myrle Kemperman, Judith Wagner, Mira Geirnaert, Kim Meijer and Daisy van Minde for help with MRI data. This work was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research [MW 904-61-193, MaGW-nr: 400-07-080, MagW 480-04-004] and the Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam [AC-2009-F2-3.]
