NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL AND POWER SPECTRAL EEG INVESTIGATIONS OF THE OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE SYNDROME

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 14  (1) , 119-130
Abstract
Consecutive patients [11] with primary obessive-compulsive syndrome were studied neuropsychologically and the power spectral EEG characteristic of 10 of these patients unmedicated, at rest and during cognitive tasks were analyzed. The finding of predominantly left frontal dysfunction in the obsessional syndrome was discussed in the light of neurophysiological and psychosurgical evidence which suggest that perturbation of the cingulate-orbital frontal connections modulates obsessive-compulsive symptomatology.

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