ArticleBMC psychiatry2021
Executive functions and insight in OCD: a comparative study.
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- Clinical Correlates of Poor Insight in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: An Integrative Cross-Sectional Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- A fine line between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and psychotic disorder: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2026Article
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- Decreased inter- and intra-network connectivity after group cognitive behavioral therapy in patients with unmedicated obsessive-compulsive disorder.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Exploring connectivity and volume alterations in the Pulvinar's subnuclei: insights into the neuropathological role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Inhibition of TRPM3 channels in the medial prefrontal cortex mitigates OCD symptoms following traumatic brain injury.Inflammopharmacology · 2025Article
- Assessment of symptoms in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: a comparative study of existing scales.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder after traumatic injury to the right frontal and left temporal lobes: A case report.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2024Article
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Etiology, neuropathology, and cognitive dysfunction.Brain and behavior · 2023Review
- Insight in obsessive-compulsive disorder: conception, clinical characteristics, neuroimaging, and treatment.Psychoradiology · 2023Review
- Anosognosia in hoarding disorder is predicted by alterations in cognitive and inhibitory control.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Sense of happiness and other aspects of quality of life in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Neuropsychological and psychopathological correlates of insight in persons with OCD.Industrial psychiatry journalArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAround 25 to 30% of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) do not respond to treatment. These patients have the longest duration of disease and the worst prognosis. Following years of research on this topic, insight has emerged as a potential explanation for this therapeutic resistance. Therefore, it has become important to characterize OCD patients with poor insight. Few studies have focused on the neuropsychological and cognitive characteristics of these patients.
methodsTo help fill this gap, we divided 57 patients into two groups, one with good insight and the other with poor insight, assessed their neuropsychological functions-through a Rey's figure test, a California verbal learning test, a Toulouse-Piéron test and a Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST)-and compared the results with those of a paired control group.
resultsThe statistical analysis, with a significance level of 95%, revealed differences in the executive function tests, and particularly in the WCST (p ≤ 0.001) and trail-making-test (TMT A/B) (p = 0.002).
conclusionsThese differences suggest that the neuropsychological profile of poor-insight patients is different from their good-insight counterparts, emphasize the role played by the executive functions in insight and highlights the need for more accurate neurocognitive research and treatment.
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