Compulsivity is associated with alterations in the structure and the function of parallel and
interacting brain circuits involved in emotional processing (involving both the reward and the …

Background Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) experience aversive
emotions in response to obsessions, motivating avoidance and compulsive behaviors …

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common, typically chronic disorder marked by
intrusive and disturbing thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions) that …

Background Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) has a heterogeneous and complex
phenomenological picture, characterized by different symptom dimensions and comorbid …

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common psychiatric illness and significant
research has been ongoing to understand its neurobiological basis. Neuroimaging studies …

Disturbances in social cognitive processes such as the ability to infer others' mental states
importantly contribute to social and functional impairments in psychiatric disorders. Yet …

Background Default mode network (DMN), central executive network (CEN) and salience
network (SN) are the three most important intrinsic networks of the human brain. Recent …

Significant interest in the mechanistic underpinnings of obsessive-compulsive disorder
(OCD) has fueled research on the neural origins of compulsive behaviors. Converging …

The amygdala consists of a group of heterogeneous nuclei located in the medial portion of
the temporal lobe and is involved in multimodal information processing important for …

Neuroimaging research has shown that patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
may present brain structural and functional alterations, but the results across imaging …