Abstract
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been related to frontostriatal dysfunction, but some inconsistencies between studies and a relative paucity of neuropsychological research still characterizes the study of OCD. We compared 28 patients with OCD and matched healthy controls on two neuropsychological tests sensitive to frontal dysfunction: temporal ordering and a "feeling-of-doing" (FOD) judgment about ordering. The OCD group performed significantly worse than controls in the temporal ordering task despite showing normal recognition memory. Patients were also impaired in "feeling-of-doing" judgments suggesting they have a lack of self-awareness of their performance. Thus, the results of the current study reinforces previous research that indicates that OCD patients fail on tasks that require adequate functioning of the frontal-striatal pathways.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 261-269 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2002 |
Funding
1Dpt. Psiquiatria i Psicobiologia cĺõnica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, 2Hospital Pŕõnceps d'Espanya, Barcelona, Spain, and 3Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Neurology
- Neurology
- Clinical Psychology