Motor Inhibition and Cognitive Flexibility in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Trichotillomania
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Motor inhibition and cognitive flexibility in obsessive-compulsive disorder and trichotillomania.
OBJECTIVE Problems with inhibiting certain pathological behaviors are integral to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), trichotillomania, and other putative obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders. The authors assessed and compared motor inhibition and cognitive flexibility in OCD and trichotillomania for the first time, to their knowledge. METHOD The Stop-Signal Task and the Intradimensiona/E...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0002-953X,1535-7228
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.2006.163.7.1282