When too much is not enough: obsessive-compulsive disorder as a pathology of stopping, rather than starting.
In obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), individuals feel compelled to repeatedly perform security-related behaviors, even though these behaviours seem excessive and unwarranted to them. The present research investigated two alternative ways of explaining such behavior: (1) a dysfunction of activatio...
Main Authors: | Andrea L Hinds, Erik Z Woody, Michael Van Ameringen, Louis A Schmidt, Henry Szechtman |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3266914?pdf=render |
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