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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2015

Frontal EEG alpha activity and obsessive-compulsive behaviors in non-clinical young adults: a pilot study.

Michael Wong, Erik Z Woody, Louis A Schmidt, Michael Van Ameringen, Noam Soreni, Henry Szechtman

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael WongDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University , Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Erik Z WoodyDepartment of Psychology, University of Waterloo , Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Louis A SchmidtDepartment of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour, McMaster University , Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Michael Van AmeringenDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University , Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Noam SoreniDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University , Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Henry SzechtmanDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University , Hamilton, ON, Canada.
McMaster University · CAUniversity of Waterloo · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous studies have shown that the resting electroencephalogram (EEG) alpha patterns of non-clinical participants who score high on measures of negative affect, such as depression and shyness, are different from those who score low. However, we know relatively little about patterns of resting EEG alpha patterns in a non-clinical sample of individuals with high levels of obsessive-compulsive behaviors indicative of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Here we measured resting EEG alpha activity in frontal and parietal regions of non-clinical participants who scored high and low on the Padua-R, a measure of the severity of OCD-related behaviors. We found that participants who scored high on the Padua-R exhibited decreased overall activity in frontal regions relative to individuals who scored low on the measure. We speculate that frontal hypoactivity may be a possible marker and/or index of risk for OCD.

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anxietyelectroencephalographyfrontal hypoactivityobsessive-compulsive disordersecurity motivation

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PMID26483733
PMCPMC4586322
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