No disadvantage for the processing of global visual features in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 489-493

  Moritz, Steffen ^a   Wendt, Mike ^b   Jelinek, Lena ^a   Ruhe, Claudia ^a   Arzola, Gladys Marina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c PALO ALTO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Checker; Compulsions; Local global processing; Obsessions; OCD; Visual processing; Washer

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 42449150376     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617708080417     Document Type: Article

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