Impairment in the goal-directed corticostriatal learning system as a biomarker for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

CONCLUSIONS: The same changes in EC were present in both OCD patients and their unaffected first-degree relatives suggest that impairment in the goal-directed learning system may be a biomarker for OCD.
PMID: 31272523 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Psychological Medicine - July 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dong C, Yang Q, Liang J, Seger CA, Han H, Ning Y, Chen Q, Peng Z Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research