Memory bias in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 605-618

  Radomsky, Adam S ^a   Rachman, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information processing; Memory bias; OCD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPULSION; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OBSESSION; STUDENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER;

EID: 0032972376     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(98)00151-X     Document Type: Article

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