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Clinical characteristics of schizotypal-related obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Psychiatry research - 30 May 2008
Poyurovsky Michael, Faragian Sarit, Pashinian Artashez, Heidrach Lilah, Fuchs Camil, Weizman Ronit, Koran Lorrin
Abstract excerpt
In this study we compared 15 patients with DSM-IV obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) and 31 non-SPD OCD patients. OCD-SPD patients had poorer insight, more negative symptoms, lower functioning, more antipsychotic augmentation and more first-degree relatives with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. A distinct clinical phenotype of OCD associated with SPD should be...
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