Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
New obsessive-compulsive disorder study findings recently were published by researchers at University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry
Published in Hospital Law Weekly, May 1st, 2008
Investigators publish new data in the report 'Integrating evidence from neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies of obsessive-compulsive disorder: the orbitofronto-striatal model revisited.' "Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common, heritable and disabling neuropsychiatric disorder. Theoretical models suggest that OCD is underpinned by functional and structural abnormalities in orbitofronto-striatal circuits," scientists in Cambridge, the United Kingdom report.
"Evidence from cognitive and neuroimaging studies (functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET)) have generally been taken to be supportive of these...
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Source: Hospital Law Weekly (2008-05-01)
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