Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology  2000;0(04):-

Executive Function in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder:A Review

Jie ZHONG ; Jing NIE

Keywords

Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Executive function

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

This paper reviewed the existing literatures of executive function in obsessive -compulsive disorder (OCD) patients, and critically examined four neurocognitive tests in the recent ten years' studies, including stroop task, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test(WCST),London tower, and Trail-making test. In addition, we discuss the problems occurred in the past experiments, and put forward suggestions for further studies.