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COGNITIVE INHIBITION IN OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER: APPLICATION OF A VALENCE-BASED NEGATIVE PRIMING PARADIGM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2001

Richard J. McNally ,
Sabine Wilhelm ,
Ulrike Buhlmann  and
Lisa M. Shin
Richard J. McNally
Affiliation:
Harvard University, U.S.A.
Sabine Wilhelm
Affiliation:
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, U.S.A.
Ulrike Buhlmann
Affiliation:
University of Marburg, Germany
Lisa M. Shin
Affiliation:
Tufts University, U.S.A.
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Abstract

We used a negative priming paradigm to test for deficits in cognitive inhibition in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and to examine whether they exhibit greater inhibitory deficits when lexical targets are threat-related than when they are neutral. The results indicated that OCD patients, relative to healthy control participants, exhibited only marginally significant (p < .10) deficits in negative priming at short (100 ms), but not long (500 ms), stimulus onset asynchronies. There was no evidence that OCD patients exhibited disproportionate difficulty inhibiting negative words, nor was there any evidence that negative priming deficits differed between OCD checkers and OCD noncheckers.

Keywords

Negative primingTipper paradigmcognitive inhibitionobsessive-compulsive disorder
Type
Brief Clinical Reports
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 2001 , pp. 103 - 106
Copyright
© 2001 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

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