Continuous performance test in drug-naïve patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: a case-controlled study

Psychiatry Res. 2009 Sep 30;169(2):183-5. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.10.017. Epub 2009 Jul 31.

Abstract

Twenty drug-naïve patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) were compared with matched controls on their performance of the Continuous Performance Test (CPT). There was no difference on any measure of the CPT in the two groups. Higher obsession scores, rather than compulsion scores, were associated with poorer sensitivity of the CPT in drug-naïve OCD patients.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Attention / physiology*
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Linear Models
  • Male
  • Neuropsychological Tests*
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / physiopathology*
  • Photic Stimulation
  • Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
  • Psychomotor Performance / physiology*
  • Signal Detection, Psychological / physiology*
  • Young Adult