Attention in sub-clinical obsessive-compulsive checkers

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 320-326

  Irak, Metehan ^a   Flament, Martine F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Checking; OCD; Recall; Recognition

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60749090822     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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