Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Research from Medical University of Vienna, Department of Psychiatry yields new data on obsessive-compulsive disorder

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 22nd, 2007

Investigators publish new data in the report "Cognitive and emotion recognition deficits in obsessive-compulsive disorder." According to recent research from Vienna, Austria, "Previous investigations have demonstrated impaired recognition of facial affect and cognitive dysfunction in several psychiatric disorders. The specificity of these deficits is still debated."

"The aim of this study was to investigate the deficits in emotion recognition and cognition in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Forty patients with OCD (DSM-IV, 16 women, 34.7±10.4 years) and 40 healthy volunteers (16 women, 34.7±8.7 years) were compared. All participants underwent a...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2007-03-22)

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