Idiopathic basal ganglia calcification presenting as schizophrenia-like psychosis and obsessive-compulsive symptoms: A case report
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Obsessive compulsive disorder and basal ganglia dysfunction.
There is increasing evidence that selective basal ganglia dysfunction underlies obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Recent neuroanatomical, neuropharmacological, and behavioural studies indicate a complex perceptual and cognitive role for the basal ganglia in addition to their more well-accepted motor functions. In addition, obsessive-compulsive symptoms in certain syndromes and in individual ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1792-0981,1792-1015
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2015.2525