Citation

Clayton IC, Richards JC, Edwards CJ. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 1999; 108(1): 171-175.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10067003

Abstract

Recent information-processing studies have suggested that a selective attention deficit may be involved in the symptomatology of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In this study, individuals diagnosed with OCD were distinguished from those with panic disorder and from control participants by their relatively poorer performance on a series of psychometric tasks of selective attention. These results are interpreted as supporting the hypothesis of a diminished ability of people with OCD to selectively ignore competing external (sensory) and internal (cognitive) stimuli, especially intrusive thoughts.

Language: en