The effect of distress on the balance between goal-directed and habit networks in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Abstract The classical cognitive-behavioral theory of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) holds that compulsions are performed to reduce distress that is evoked by obsessions, whereas a recent neuroscience-inspired theory suggests that compulsivity results from a disbalance between goal-directed and...

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Main Authors: Anouk van der Straten, Wieke van Leeuwen, Damiaan Denys, Hein van Marle, Guido van Wingen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-02-01
Series:Translational Psychiatry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-020-0744-7