Perseveration causes automatization of checking behavior in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 71, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-9

  Dek, Eliane C P ^a,b   van den Hout, Marcel A ^a   Engelhard, Iris M ^a,b   Giele, Catharina L ^a   Cath, Danielle C ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Altrecht Academic Anxiety Center   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatization; Defamiliarization; Familiarity; Memory uncertainty; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Repeated checking

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; AUTOMATISM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; COMPULSION; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGY; RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUTOMATISM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929378915     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2015.05.005     Document Type: Article

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