ArticleBrain sciences2021
Executive Functioning and Clinical Variables in Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
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- Neural mechanisms underlying cognitive inflexibility in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Measuring Cognitive Flexibility in Chinese Individuals with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Psychometric Validation and Factor Structure of the Chinese Version of the Flexibility in Daily Life Scale.Psychology research and behavior management · 2026Article
- Quebec French Version of the Hayling Sentence Completion Test: Error Scoring Guidelines, Normative Data for Adults and the Elderly and Validation Study in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2025Article
- Externally orienting cues improve cognitive control in OCD.Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry · 2024Article
- Proactive control for conflict resolution is intact in subclinical obsessive-compulsive individuals.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Etiology, neuropathology, and cognitive dysfunction.Brain and behavior · 2023Review
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- Visuospatial working memory capacity moderates the relationship between anxiety and OCD related checking behaviors.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Cognitive Neural Mechanism of Backward Inhibition and Deinhibition: A Review.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Review
- Cognitive sequences in obsessive-compulsive disorder are supported by frontal cortex ramping activity.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
backgroundCognitive flexibility, response inhibition, and working memory are considered the main mechanisms responsible for executive control. This study examined differences in cognitive flexibility, inhibition, and working memory in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) relative to a control group.
methodA total of 62 obsessive-compulsive participants (OCD = 32; healthy control = 32) aged between 17 and 56 years old (M = 33.16, SD = 9.23) were administered the computerized Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Stroop Color-Word Test, Go/No-Go Task, Digit Test, and Corsi Block Test. Clinician-rated and self-reported obsessive-compulsive symptom severity, and anxiety, depression, and obsessive beliefs were evaluated.
resultsThe control group performed better than the OCD group in tasks involving cognitive flexibility, inhibition, and visuospatial working memory. Anxiety and obsessive beliefs influenced the participants' performance on inhibition and working memory tasks. Similarly, comorbidity also influenced inhibition and working memory. In addition, the use of pharmacotherapy and the degree of OCD symptom severity influenced verbal working memory.
conclusionsCognitive flexibility, inhibition, and visuospatial working memory deficits may be endophenotypes of OCD but require further examination for specificity. OCD severity, comorbidity patterns, anxiety, and obsessive beliefs may influence performance.
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