No evidence of attentional bias toward angry faces in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
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2019
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Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)
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Skinazi M.
de Mathis M.A.
Cohab T.
de Marco E Souza M.
Shavitt R.G.
Miguel E.C.
Hoexter M.Q.
Batistuzzo M.C.
de Mathis M.A.
Cohab T.
de Marco E Souza M.
Shavitt R.G.
Miguel E.C.
Hoexter M.Q.
Batistuzzo M.C.
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OBJECTIVE: Although attentional bias (AB) toward angry faces is well established in patients with anxiety disorders, it is still poorly studied in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We investigated whether OCD patients present AB toward angry faces, whether AB is related to symptom severity and whether AB scores are associated with specific OCD symptom dimensions. METHOD: Forty-eight OCD patients were assessed in clinical evaluations, intelligence testing and a dot-probe AB paradigm that used neutral and angry faces as stimuli. Analyses were performed with a one-sample t-test, Pearson correlations and linear regression. RESULTS: No evidence of AB was observed in OCD patients, nor was there any association between AB and symptom severity or dimension. Psychiatric comorbidity did not affect our results. CONCLUSION: In accordance with previous studies, we were unable to detect AB in OCD patients. To investigate whether OCD patients have different brain activation patterns from anxiety disorder patients, future studies using a transdiagnostic approach should evaluate AB in OCD and anxiety disorder patients as they perform AB tasks under functional neuroimaging protocols.
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Adolescent , Adult , Anger , Anxiety Disorders , Attentional Bias , Data Accuracy , Facial Recognition , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder , Psychological Tests , Young Adult