Do defense styles of ego relate to volumes of orbito-frontal cortex in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Psychiatry Investigation

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 123-129

  Atmaca, Murad ^a   Yildirim, Hanefi ^b   Koc, Mustafa ^b   Korkmaz, Sevda ^a   Ozler, Sinan ^a   Erenkus, Zehra ^c  

^a Departments of Psychiatry   (Turkey)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Defense syles; Mri; OCD; OFC

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEFENSE STYLE QUESTIONNAIRE; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DENIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISPLACEMENT BEHAVIOR; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; ORBITAL CORTEX; PASSIVE AGGRESSION; PSEUDOALTRUISM; PSYCHODYNAMICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOMATIZATION;

EID: 79960934713     PISSN: 17383684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4306/pi.2011.8.2.123     Document Type: Article

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