Diagnostic stability of internet addiction in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Data from a naturalistic one-year treatment study

Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 14-23

  Bipeta, Rajshekhar ^a   Yerramilli, Srinivasa S R R ^b   Karredla, Ashok Reddy ^b   Gopinath, Srinath ^c  

^a Rajasri Clinic   (India)

^b SUNY Downstate Medical Center ^*  (India)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet addiction; Internet Addiction Test; Obsessivecompulsive disorder; OCD; Psychopathology; Young s Diagnostic Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DSM-IV; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET ADDICTION; INTERNET ADDICTION TEST; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; YALE BROWN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE; YOUNGS DIAGNOSTIC QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 84938065899     PISSN: 21588333     EISSN: 21588341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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