Abnormal resting-state activities and functional connectivities of the anterior and the posterior cortexes in medication-naïve patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental illness characterized by the loss of control. Because the cingulate cortex is believed to be important in executive functions, such as inhibition, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques to examine whether and how activity and f...

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Main Authors: Yuqi Cheng, Jian Xu, Binbin Nie, Chunrong Luo, Tao Yang, Haijun Li, Jin Lu, Lin Xu, Baoci Shan, Xiufeng Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3696097?pdf=render