Obsessive Compulsive Disorder as a functional interhemispheric imbalance at the thalamic level

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 445-447

  Gonçalves, Óscar F ^a   Carvalho, Sandra ^a   Leite, Jorge ^a   Pocinho, Fernando ^b   Relvas, João ^b   Fregni, Felipe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL INTERHEMISPHERIC IMBALANCE; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; NEUROIMAGING; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

COGNITION DISORDERS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; THALAMUS;

EID: 80051825315     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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