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Acquired obsessive-compulsive disorder associated with basal ganglia lesions
R C Chacko1, M A Corbin, R G Harper
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
|September 23, 2000
Abstract:
The authors report 5 cases of acquired obsessive-compulsive disorder occurring later in life. Patients' presentations, which could be readily mistaken for a delusional disorder, were associated with depressive symptoms and basal ganglia lesions, implicating dysfunction of the cortical-basal ganglia-thalamic-cortical neuroanatomical circuit.