Increased anterior brain activation to correct responses on high-conflict Stroop task in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-113

  Ciesielski, Kristina T ^a,b   Rowland, Laura M ^a   Harris, Richard J ^a   Kerwin, Audra A ^a   Reeve, Alya ^c   Knight, Jeanne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

A high conflict Stroop task; Adaptive mechanism; Cingulate gyrus; Event related potentials (ERPs); Inhibition; Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANTERIOR BRAIN ACTIVATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STROOP WORD COLOR INTERFERENCE TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650173162     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.05.027     Document Type: Article

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