Further evidence for biased semantic networks in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): When knives are no longer associated with buttering bread but only with stabbing people

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 427-434

  Jelinek, Lena ^a   Hauschildt, Marit ^a   Hottenrott, Birgit ^a   Kellner, Michael ^a   Moritz, Steffen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Association splitting; Interpretation bias; OCD; Semantic network

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION TASK; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERPRETATION BIAS; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTIC NETWORK; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORD RECOGNITION; ASSOCIATION; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITIVE THERAPY; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84902656998     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: 18737943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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