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Superstitiousness in obsessive-compulsive disorder

It has been speculated that superstitiousness and obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD) exist along a continuum. The distinction between superstitious behavior italic>and superstitious belief, however, is crucial for any theoretical account of claimed associations between superstitiousness and OCD....

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Autores principales: Brugger, Peter, Viaud-Delmon, Isabelle
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Les Laboratoires Servier 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20623929
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description It has been speculated that superstitiousness and obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD) exist along a continuum. The distinction between superstitious behavior italic>and superstitious belief, however, is crucial for any theoretical account of claimed associations between superstitiousness and OCD. By demonstrating that there is a dichotomy between behavior and belief, which is experimentally testable, we can differentiate superstitious behavior from superstitious belief, or magical ideation. Different brain circuits are responsible for these two forms of superstitiousness; thus, determining which type of superstition is prominent in the symptomatology of an individual patient may inform us about the primarily affected neurocognitive systems.
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spelling pubmed-31819572011-10-27 Superstitiousness in obsessive-compulsive disorder Brugger, Peter Viaud-Delmon, Isabelle Dialogues Clin Neurosci Brief Report It has been speculated that superstitiousness and obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD) exist along a continuum. The distinction between superstitious behavior italic>and superstitious belief, however, is crucial for any theoretical account of claimed associations between superstitiousness and OCD. By demonstrating that there is a dichotomy between behavior and belief, which is experimentally testable, we can differentiate superstitious behavior from superstitious belief, or magical ideation. Different brain circuits are responsible for these two forms of superstitiousness; thus, determining which type of superstition is prominent in the symptomatology of an individual patient may inform us about the primarily affected neurocognitive systems. Les Laboratoires Servier 2010-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3181957/ /pubmed/20623929 Text en Copyright: © 2010 LLS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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