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Error-related negativity in individuals with obsessive–compulsive symptoms: Toward an understanding of hoarding behaviors

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Mathews, Carol A., Perez, Veronica B., Delucchi, Kevin L., Mathalon, Daniel H.·2012·Biological Psychology

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The error-related negativity (ERN), an event-related potential component elicited by error responses in cognitive tasks, has been shown to be abnormal in most, but not all, studies of obsessive-compulsive disorder or obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCD/S); these inconsistencies may be due to task selection, symptom subtype, or both. We used meta-analysis to further characterize the ERN in OCD/S, and pooled data across studies to examine the ERN in OCD/S with hoarding. We found an enhanced ERN in OCD/S relative to controls, as well as heterogeneity across tasks. When stratified, OCD/S showed a significantly enhanced ERN only in response conflict tasks. However, OCD/S+hoarding showed a marginally larger ERN than OCD/S-hoarding, but only for probabilistic learning tasks. These results suggest that abnormal ERN in OCD/S is task-dependent, and that OCD/S+hoarding show different ERN activity from OCD/S-hoarding perhaps suggesting different pathophysiological mechanisms of error monitoring.

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  • OCD patients show abnormal error responses in a variety of response conflict and error monitoring tasks using EEG, suggesting overactivity of the performance monitoring system involving the anterior cingulate cortex.

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Authors
Mathews, C. A., Perez, V. B., Delucchi, K. L., & Mathalon, D. H.
Affiliations
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • San Francisco VA Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
Mathews, Carol A.
Venue
Biological Psychology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-02
Volume
89
Issue
2
Pages
487-494
ISSN
0301-0511 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2015723694
Cited by
78
References
70
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1.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Biological Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5r01mh058262-17)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH-058262, T32MH089920)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
error-related negativity, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, hoarding behavior, obsessive-compulsive disorder, error monitoring, response conflict, probabilistic learning, event-related potentials
MeSH terms
Hoarding Disorder, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Humans

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