Neuropsychological function in obsessive-compulsive disorder: effects of comorbid conditions on task performance

• Published in: European psychiatry Vol. 18; no. 5; pp. 241 - 248
• Main Authors: Aycicegi, Ayse, Dinn, Wayne M, Harris, Catherine L, Erkmen, Husnu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Paris Elsevier SAS 01.08.2003; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Analysis of Variance; Anxiety disorders. Neuroses; Biological and medical sciences; Depression - complications; Depression - diagnosis; Depression - psychology; Depressive symptoms; Executive function; Female; Frontal Lobe - physiopathology; Humans; Limbic System - physiopathology; Male; Medical sciences; Neuropsychological; Neuropsychological Tests; Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - complications; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - diagnosis; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - psychology; Obsessive-compulsive disorders; Orbitofrontal; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Reference Values; Schizotypal personality; Schizotypal Personality Disorder - complications; Schizotypal Personality Disorder - diagnosis; Schizotypal Personality Disorder - psychology; Task Performance and Analysis; Orbitofrontal; Depressive symptoms; Neuropsychological; Executive function; Schizotypal personality; Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Short term; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Memory; Anxiety disorder; Cognition; Personality disorder; Language; Mood disorder; Human; Verbal fluidity; Visual memory; Attention; Depression; Long term; Symptomatology; Concomitant disease; Vision; Perception; Severity score; Working memory; Neuropsychologia; Comparative study; Spatial memory

Background. – Neuropsychological testing reveals a pattern of impairment among patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) which implicates the orbitofrontal region. Studies of neuropsychological function in OCD differ regarding performance deficits on classical tests of frontal executive func...