No evidence of attentional bias toward angry faces in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Braz. J. Psychiatry (São Paulo, 1999, Impr.)
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41(3): 257-260, May-June 2019. tab, graf
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in English
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ABSTRACT
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.
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Main subject:
Anxiety Disorders
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Attentional Bias
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Practice guideline
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Braz. J. Psychiatry (São Paulo, 1999, Impr.)
Journal subject:
Psychiatry
Year:
2019
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie/BR
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP)/BR
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