Effects of tryptophan depletion on cognitive functioning, obsessive-compulsive symptoms and mood in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Preliminary results

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 127-131

  Külz, Anne Katrin ^a   Meinzer, Sandra ^a   Kopasz, Marta ^a   Voderholzer, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 HT; Cognitive functioning; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Tryptophan depletion

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MOOD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRY; SPEECH; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; COGNITION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOOD, FORMULATED; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 40349107245     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000115778     Document Type: Article

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