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Published on: January 9, 2015
Response to Cognitive impulsivity and the behavioral addiction model of obsessive-compulsive disorder: Abramovitch
Giacomo Grassi1, Martjin Figee2, Paolo Stratta3
11 Department of NEUROFARBA, University of Florence , Florence, Italy.
Abstract:
In our recently published article, we investigated the behavioral addiction model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), by assessing three core dimensions of addiction in patients with OCD healthy participants. Similar to the common findings in addiction, OCD patients demonstrated increased impulsivity, risky decision-making, and biased probabilistic reasoning compared to healthy controls. Thus, we concluded that these results support the conceptualization of OCD as a disorder of behavioral addiction. Here, we answer to Abramovitch and McKay (2016) commentary on our paper and we support our conclusions by explaining how cognitive impulsivity is also a typical feature of addiction and how our results on decision-making and probabilistic reasoning tasks reflect cognitive impulsivity facets that are consistently replicated in OCD and addiction.
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