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Neurological Factors in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Two Case Reports and a Review of the Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

P. A. Kettl  and
I. M. Marks
P. A. Kettl
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (now at Department of Psychiatry, Alaska Native Medical Center, PO Box 7–741, Anchorage, Alaska 99510, USA
I. M. Marks*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
*
Correspondence
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Abstract

Two patients are described in whom an obsessive-compulsive disorder began just after the onset of epilepsy. Neurological factors in OCD are then reviewed, and clinical reports of patients with OCD and co-existing brain pathology, EEG abnormalities, CT scan changes and electrical stimulation of the brain discussed. It is concluded that neurological factors are present in only a minority of cases of OCD. Successful behavioural treatment is independent of such factors.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 149 , Issue 3 , September 1986 , pp. 315 - 319
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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