Convulsions in the treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder

Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and epilepsy tend to share a close association. However, the exact relationship between OCD symptoms and epileptic convulsions is not well known. A case of OCD who improved remarkably following drug-induced seizures is described, implicating a role for convulsion...

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Autores principales: Basu, Soumya, Gupta, Subhash Chandra, Haque Nizamie, S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2005
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2919797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20814464
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.55945
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description Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and epilepsy tend to share a close association. However, the exact relationship between OCD symptoms and epileptic convulsions is not well known. A case of OCD who improved remarkably following drug-induced seizures is described, implicating a role for convulsion as an alternative therapeutic modality in OCD.
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spelling pubmed-29197972010-09-02 Convulsions in the treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder Basu, Soumya Gupta, Subhash Chandra Haque Nizamie, S. Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and epilepsy tend to share a close association. However, the exact relationship between OCD symptoms and epileptic convulsions is not well known. A case of OCD who improved remarkably following drug-induced seizures is described, implicating a role for convulsion as an alternative therapeutic modality in OCD. Medknow Publications 2005 /pmc/articles/PMC2919797/ /pubmed/20814464 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.55945 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.
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Convulsions in the treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder
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title_full Convulsions in the treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder
title_fullStr Convulsions in the treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder
title_full_unstemmed Convulsions in the treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder
title_short Convulsions in the treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder
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