Investigating behavior inhibition in obsessive-compulsive disorder : Evidence from eye movements

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We investigated the role of inhibition failure in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) through an eye tracking experiment. Twenty-five subjects with OCD were recruited, as well as 25 with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and 25 healthy controls. A 3 (group: OCD group, GAD group and control group) × 2 (target eccentricity: far and near) × 2 (saccade task: prosaccade and antisaccade) mixed design was used, with all participants completing two sets of tasks involving both prosaccade (eye movement towards a target) and antisaccade (eye movement away from a target). The main outcome was the eye movement index, including the saccade latency (the time interval from the onset of the target screen to the first saccade) and the error rate of saccade direction. The antisaccade latency and antisaccade error rates for OCDs were much higher than those for GADs and healthy controls. OCDs had longer latency and error rates for antisaccades than for prosaccades, and for far-eccentricity rather than near-eccentricity stimuli. These results suggest that OCDs experience difficulty with behavior inhibition, and that they have higher visual sensitivity to peripheral stimuli. In particular, they show greatest difficulty in inhibiting behavior directed towards peripheral stimuli.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:61

Enthalten in:

Scandinavian journal of psychology - 61(2020), 5 vom: 08. Okt., Seite 634-641

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hu, Yixin [VerfasserIn]
Liao, Rui [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Weiling [VerfasserIn]
Kong, Xiangwei [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Jingyi [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Dongxu [VerfasserIn]
Maguire, Phil [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Shengqi [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Dawei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antisaccade
Behaviour inhibition
Journal Article
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Prosaccade

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Date Completed 25.01.2021

Date Revised 25.01.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/sjop.12620

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM306217155