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Neuropsychological disposition and its impact on the executive functions and cognitive style in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

BACKGROUND: Recent brain imaging and electrophysiological studies have consistently shown dysfunction of the fronto-striatal thalamic pathways in patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). AIM: To study the relationship of neuropsychological disposition with the executive functions and cogni...

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Autores principales: Tarafder, Sreemoyee, Bhattacharya, Pallabi, Paul, Debika, Bandyopadhyay, Gautam, Mukhopadhyay, Pritha
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2913556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20703394
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.31598
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author Tarafder, Sreemoyee
Bhattacharya, Pallabi
Paul, Debika
Bandyopadhyay, Gautam
Mukhopadhyay, Pritha
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Bhattacharya, Pallabi
Paul, Debika
Bandyopadhyay, Gautam
Mukhopadhyay, Pritha
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description BACKGROUND: Recent brain imaging and electrophysiological studies have consistently shown dysfunction of the fronto-striatal thalamic pathways in patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). AIM: To study the relationship of neuropsychological disposition with the executive functions and cognitive style in patients with OCD. METHODS: Twenty OCD patients (14 males, 6 females) and 20 normal control subjects, matched for all relevant variables including age, sex and education, were studied. Neuropsychological disposition was assessed on the Adult Neuropsychological Questionnaire (ANQ), the executive functions were assessed through Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), and the cognitive style was assessed by employing the Embedded Figure Test (EFT). RESULTS: Subcortical–cerebellar–spinal domain of ANQ was found to be associated with cognitive style and executive functions. CONCLUSION: The impairment of executive functions and poor activation of specific neurological circuitry in OCD patients affirms the neurobiological basis of the disorder.
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spelling pubmed-29135562010-08-11 Neuropsychological disposition and its impact on the executive functions and cognitive style in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder Tarafder, Sreemoyee Bhattacharya, Pallabi Paul, Debika Bandyopadhyay, Gautam Mukhopadhyay, Pritha Indian J Psychiatry Original Research Paper BACKGROUND: Recent brain imaging and electrophysiological studies have consistently shown dysfunction of the fronto-striatal thalamic pathways in patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). AIM: To study the relationship of neuropsychological disposition with the executive functions and cognitive style in patients with OCD. METHODS: Twenty OCD patients (14 males, 6 females) and 20 normal control subjects, matched for all relevant variables including age, sex and education, were studied. Neuropsychological disposition was assessed on the Adult Neuropsychological Questionnaire (ANQ), the executive functions were assessed through Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), and the cognitive style was assessed by employing the Embedded Figure Test (EFT). RESULTS: Subcortical–cerebellar–spinal domain of ANQ was found to be associated with cognitive style and executive functions. CONCLUSION: The impairment of executive functions and poor activation of specific neurological circuitry in OCD patients affirms the neurobiological basis of the disorder. Medknow Publications 2006 /pmc/articles/PMC2913556/ /pubmed/20703394 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.31598 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Original Research Paper
Tarafder, Sreemoyee
Bhattacharya, Pallabi
Paul, Debika
Bandyopadhyay, Gautam
Mukhopadhyay, Pritha
Neuropsychological disposition and its impact on the executive functions and cognitive style in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
title Neuropsychological disposition and its impact on the executive functions and cognitive style in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
title_full Neuropsychological disposition and its impact on the executive functions and cognitive style in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
title_fullStr Neuropsychological disposition and its impact on the executive functions and cognitive style in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
title_full_unstemmed Neuropsychological disposition and its impact on the executive functions and cognitive style in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
title_short Neuropsychological disposition and its impact on the executive functions and cognitive style in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
title_sort neuropsychological disposition and its impact on the executive functions and cognitive style in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
topic Original Research Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2913556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20703394
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.31598
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