AIM To examine obsessive-compulsive patients for memory of obsessive-compulsive relevant material and confidence in their memory. METHODS Memory function was examined by a recognition task using neutral and obsessive-compulsive relevant sentences in 32 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and 31 control subjects. We also investigated the participants' confidence in the accuracy of thei...

INTRODUCTION Misinterpretation of intrusive thoughts because of obsessive beliefs has been thought to be important in the development of obsessive compulsive symptoms. In current study, (I) the difference between OCD patients and healthy controls in regard of obsessive beliefs and (II) the relation of obsesive beliefs with the prevelance and severity of obsessive compulsive symptoms was investi...

Introduction Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a clinical syndrome whose hallmarks are excessive, anxiety-evoking thoughts and compulsive behaviours that generally recognized as unreasonable, but which cause significant distress impairment. OCD may also occur in the context of other neuropsychiatric disorders, most commonly anxiety mood disorders. The question remains to whether these comb...

Objective: To explore the effect of comorbid obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) on response inhibition functions in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Methods: Forty-five obsessive-compulsive patients with obsessivecompulsive personality disorder (OCD + OCPD), 42 obsessivecompulsive patients without obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCD OCPD) and 54 health...

There are many comorbid disorders associated with autism spectrum disorders in child and adolescent population. Although obsessive compulsive disorder and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) comorbidity has common in clinical practice, there are few reports about psychopharmacological treatment for obsessive compulsive symptoms in children with ASD in the literacy. We report a successful treatment ...

BACKGROUND Cognitive models of obsessive-compulsive disorder suggest that changes in obsessive beliefs are a key mechanism of treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Thus, in the present process-outcome study, we tested whether changes in obsessive beliefs during a primarily cognitive behavioral inpatient treatment predicted treatment outcome and whether these changes mediated symptom cha...

This study aimed to investigate the association of obsessive-compulsive symptoms with clinical and neurocognitive features in patients with schizophrenia. This study enrolled 163 people with schizophrenia who were receiving risperidone monotherapy. Comorbid obsessive-compulsive symptoms were assessed using the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, and subjects with a score ≥ 10 constituted the...

The predictive value of interpersonal schemas, perfectionism, and thought action-fusion in obsessive-compulsive disorder Objective: Cognitive vulnerability factors are central in the etiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Nosological classifications among symptom clusters have been developed to enable the understanding of possible mechanisms underlying obsessive compulsive symptoms. Previou...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a common chronic neuropsychiatric illness. Estimates of the lifetime prevalence rate of obsessive-compulsive disorder will vary depending on the methods used to gather the epidemiological data and the diagnostic criteria used to define obsessive-compulsive disorder. Estimates of the lifetime prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder have been reported to be to...

objective: the study was designed to examine explicit memory bias in trait-anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder. method: memory bias was examined in three groups of subjects: low-trait  anxious (20 subjects), high-trait anxious (20 subjects), and obsessive compulsive patients (20 subjects) in whom danger schema were activated after they were exposed the threat-related material. the trait-a...