Resolution of severe obsessive--compulsive disorder after a small unilateral nondominant frontoparietal infarct
1Department of Neurology, Parkinson Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
Abstract:
Obsessive--compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disabling neuropsychiatric disorder, which rarely spontaneously remits. We present a case of a patient suffering with severe OCD whose symptoms disappeared immediately following a small right posterior frontoparietal infarct. We speculate that the lesion modulated the cortical-subcortical circuits, likely through a change in input into in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. This could have implications regarding surgical targeting in OCD.
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