Affective and neuropsychological correlates of children's rituals and compulsive-like behaviors: Continuities and discontinuities with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 36-46

  Pietrefesa, Ashley S ^a   Evans, David W ^b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Children; Compulsive like behavior; Executive function; Fears; Obsessive compulsive disorder; OCD; Rituals

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HABITS; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; REFERENCE VALUES; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 34548593334     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2006.02.007     Document Type: Article

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