Emotional processing and disgust sensitivity in OCD patients with and without contamination-type obsessive-compulsive symptoms – An fMRI study.

ConclusionsBrain activation during distress processing in OCD is similar across the OCD subtypes and related to effortful emotion regulation, processing of aversive internal states and attention. In contamination-type OCD, the distress response is related to disgust sensitivity, which correlates with brain regions associated with attention and emotion regulation.
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research