Investigation of attentional bias in obsessive compulsive disorder with and without depression in visual search

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Morein Zamir, Sharon ^a,b   Papmeyer, Martina ^b,c   Durieux, Alice ^b   Fineberg, Naomi A ^d,e   Sahakian, Barbara J ^a,b   Robbins, Trevor W ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN ELIZABETH II HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL BIAS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERCEPTION; VISUAL SEARCH;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84892536727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080118     Document Type: Article

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