Specific cognitive deficits in tests sensitive to frontal lobe dysfunction in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1261-1269

  Veale, D M ^b   Sahakian, B J ^a   Owen, A M ^b   Marks, I M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OBSESSION;

EID: 0029803305     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033291700035984     Document Type: Article

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