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Multidimensional measures of impulsivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder: cannot wait and stop.
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- Behavioral domains in compulsive rats: implications for understanding compulsive spectrum disorders.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
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- Abnormal Responses in Cognitive Impulsivity Circuits Are Associated with Glycosylated Hemoglobin Trajectories in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Impaired Metabolic Control.Diabetes & metabolism journal · 2022Article
- Risking Everything in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: An Analogue Decision-Making Study.Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment · 2022Article
- Neurocognitive Endophenotypes of OCD.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2021Article
- Neuropsychological Research in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Current Status and Future Directions.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- Reward-related attentional capture and cognitive inflexibility interact to determine greater severity of compulsivity-related problems.Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry · 2020Article
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- Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms Are Associated With Increased Delay Discounting in a Novel Hand-Washing Task.Behavior analysis (Washington, D.C.) · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveAlthough the relationship between obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and impulsivity has long been debated, impulsivity has not been systematically examined in clinical samples of OCD. Meanwhile, recent findings suggest that impulsivity is multi-dimensional construct that can be examined through several constructs. Therefore, this study is aimed to evaluate multiple facets of impulsivity in OCD.
methodThe recruitment includes 80 OCD and 76 healthy control participants. Participants completed a test battery comprising three behavioral tasks of stop signal task (SST), delay discounting task (DDT) and balloon analog risk test (BART), and one self-report measure of the Barratt Impulsiveness scale (BIS-11).
resultsOCD subjects showed significantly lower stop signal reaction time of SST reflecting higher action impulsivity and higher delay discounting parameter of DDT suggesting increased choice impulsivity but significantly lower adjusted mean pump of BART implying lower risk taking propensity of BART than healthy control.
conclusionIncreased Action and choice impulsivity, and decreased risk taking propensities were found in OCD. These findings seem to be consistent with clinical characteristics of OCD such as greater preference for or avoid risky situations (avoidance), inability to wait tension relief may provoke safety behaviors (compulsion) and inability to stop already started behaviors (repetition).
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