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The Neurology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Nigel Hymas
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Abstract

Over the last two decades, there has been a resurgence of interest in cerebral mechanisms underlying many psychiatric disorders. The changes in our understanding of the syndrome called obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) reflect this shift of perspective. Although OCD remains a syndrome that is quintessentially psychiatric, it has been increasingly recognized that it also has a neurological dimension that merits study in its own right, using the concepts and tools of clinical neurology.

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CNS Spectrums , Volume 3 , Issue 7: Novel Neuropsychiatric Conceptualizations , August 1998, pp. 22 - 28
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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