No evidence of attentional bias toward angry faces in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Objective: Although attentional bias (AB) toward angry faces is well established in patients with anxiety disorders, it is still poorly studied in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We investigated whether OCD patients present AB toward angry faces, whether AB is related to symptom severity and wh...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP)
2018-12-01
|
| Series: | Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462018005010105&lng=en&tlng=en |
| _version_ | 1828387502115782656 |
|---|---|
| author | Michele Skinazi Maria A. de Mathis Tatiana Cohab Marina de Marco e Souza Roseli G. Shavitt Euripedes C. Miguel Marcelo Q. Hoexter Marcelo C. Batistuzzo |
| author_facet | Michele Skinazi Maria A. de Mathis Tatiana Cohab Marina de Marco e Souza Roseli G. Shavitt Euripedes C. Miguel Marcelo Q. Hoexter Marcelo C. Batistuzzo |
| author_sort | Michele Skinazi |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Objective: Although attentional bias (AB) toward angry faces is well established in patients with anxiety disorders, it is still poorly studied in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We investigated whether OCD patients present AB toward angry faces, whether AB is related to symptom severity and whether AB scores are associated with specific OCD symptom dimensions. Method: Forty-eight OCD patients were assessed in clinical evaluations, intelligence testing and a dot-probe AB paradigm that used neutral and angry faces as stimuli. Analyses were performed with a one-sample t-test, Pearson correlations and linear regression. Results: No evidence of AB was observed in OCD patients, nor was there any association between AB and symptom severity or dimension. Psychiatric comorbidity did not affect our results. Conclusion: In accordance with previous studies, we were unable to detect AB in OCD patients. To investigate whether OCD patients have different brain activation patterns from anxiety disorder patients, future studies using a transdiagnostic approach should evaluate AB in OCD and anxiety disorder patients as they perform AB tasks under functional neuroimaging protocols. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-10T05:54:26Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-71b6bc3192cf4935979864d8c8f9594a |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 1809-452X |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-10T05:54:26Z |
| publishDate | 2018-12-01 |
| publisher | Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry |
| spelling | doaj.art-71b6bc3192cf4935979864d8c8f9594a2022-12-22T01:59:57ZengAssociação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP)Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry1809-452X2018-12-01010.1590/1516-4446-2018-0130S1516-44462018005010105No evidence of attentional bias toward angry faces in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorderMichele SkinaziMaria A. de MathisTatiana CohabMarina de Marco e SouzaRoseli G. ShavittEuripedes C. MiguelMarcelo Q. HoexterMarcelo C. BatistuzzoObjective: Although attentional bias (AB) toward angry faces is well established in patients with anxiety disorders, it is still poorly studied in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We investigated whether OCD patients present AB toward angry faces, whether AB is related to symptom severity and whether AB scores are associated with specific OCD symptom dimensions. Method: Forty-eight OCD patients were assessed in clinical evaluations, intelligence testing and a dot-probe AB paradigm that used neutral and angry faces as stimuli. Analyses were performed with a one-sample t-test, Pearson correlations and linear regression. Results: No evidence of AB was observed in OCD patients, nor was there any association between AB and symptom severity or dimension. Psychiatric comorbidity did not affect our results. Conclusion: In accordance with previous studies, we were unable to detect AB in OCD patients. To investigate whether OCD patients have different brain activation patterns from anxiety disorder patients, future studies using a transdiagnostic approach should evaluate AB in OCD and anxiety disorder patients as they perform AB tasks under functional neuroimaging protocols.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462018005010105&lng=en&tlng=enThreatanxietycognitionreaction timeemotionattention |
| spellingShingle | Michele Skinazi Maria A. de Mathis Tatiana Cohab Marina de Marco e Souza Roseli G. Shavitt Euripedes C. Miguel Marcelo Q. Hoexter Marcelo C. Batistuzzo No evidence of attentional bias toward angry faces in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry Threat anxiety cognition reaction time emotion attention |
| title | No evidence of attentional bias toward angry faces in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder |
| title_full | No evidence of attentional bias toward angry faces in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder |
| title_fullStr | No evidence of attentional bias toward angry faces in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder |
| title_full_unstemmed | No evidence of attentional bias toward angry faces in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder |
| title_short | No evidence of attentional bias toward angry faces in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder |
| title_sort | no evidence of attentional bias toward angry faces in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder |
| topic | Threat anxiety cognition reaction time emotion attention |
| url | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462018005010105&lng=en&tlng=en |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT micheleskinazi noevidenceofattentionalbiastowardangryfacesinpatientswithobsessivecompulsivedisorder AT mariaademathis noevidenceofattentionalbiastowardangryfacesinpatientswithobsessivecompulsivedisorder AT tatianacohab noevidenceofattentionalbiastowardangryfacesinpatientswithobsessivecompulsivedisorder AT marinademarcoesouza noevidenceofattentionalbiastowardangryfacesinpatientswithobsessivecompulsivedisorder AT roseligshavitt noevidenceofattentionalbiastowardangryfacesinpatientswithobsessivecompulsivedisorder AT euripedescmiguel noevidenceofattentionalbiastowardangryfacesinpatientswithobsessivecompulsivedisorder AT marceloqhoexter noevidenceofattentionalbiastowardangryfacesinpatientswithobsessivecompulsivedisorder AT marcelocbatistuzzo noevidenceofattentionalbiastowardangryfacesinpatientswithobsessivecompulsivedisorder |