'Need to Know' or the Strong Urge to Find Names of Unique Entities in Acquired Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
| Autor: | Lisa Edelkraut, Cristina Green-Heredia, Francisco Javier López-González, María José Torres-Prioris, Marcelo L. Berthier, Javier Tubío, Diana López-Barroso, Núria Roé-Vellvé |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Cognitive Neuroscience Thalamus Trail Making Test behavioral disciplines and activities 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Obsessive Thinking 0302 clinical medicine Postoperative Complications Need to know mental disorders medicine Humans Names 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attention Gray Matter Association (psychology) Anterior cingulate cortex Brain Mapping 05 social sciences Brain General Medicine Middle Aged Temporal Lobe Psychiatry and Mental health Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology medicine.anatomical_structure Categorization Orbitofrontal cortex Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Cognitive and behavioral neurology : official journal of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology. 32(2) |
| ISSN: | 1543-3641 |
| Popis: | The two forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), idiopathic and acquired, have been linked to abnormalities in the fronto-striato-thalamo-cortical circuitry, involving the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, thalamus, and striatum. Accumulating evidence indicates that damage to other brain regions (ie, temporal lobes) is also implicated in the pathogenesis of both types of OCD. In addition, some discrete OCD symptoms have received less attention because of their presumed low occurrence and difficultly of categorization. Among these, one intriguing and potentially severe type of obsessive thinking is the so-called "need to know" (NtK), which is a strong urge to access certain information, particularly proper names. In some patients, this monosymptomatic presentation may constitute the major feature of OCD. Here we report the cases of two patients who developed NtK obsessions with tenacious time-consuming, answer-seeking compulsions as the only or more disabling symptomatology in association with malignant tumors involving the right temporal lobe and connected fronto-subcortical circuits. |
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