Erroneously Disgusted: fMRI Study Supports Disgust-Related Neural Reuse in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Erroneously Disgusted: fMRI Study Supports Disgust-Related Neural Reuse in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Objective: fMRI scans of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) consistently show a hyperactivity of the insular cortex, a region responsible for disgust-processing, when confronted with symptom-triggering stimuli. This asks for an investigation of the role of disgust and the insula in OC...

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Main Authors: Kathrin Viol, Benjamin Aas, Anna Kastinger, Martin Kronbichler, Helmut Johannes Schöller, Eva-Maria Reiter, Sarah Said-Yürekli, Lisa Kronbichler, Brigitte Kravanja-Spannberger, Barbara Stöger-Schmidinger, Wolfgang Aichhorn, Guenter Karl Schiepek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Subjects:
OCD
fMRI
disgust
insular cortex
precuneus
neural reuse
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00081/full

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