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  • Psychiatry
  • Cognitive Psychology

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  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is linked to altered performance monitoring, evidenced by enhanced error-related negativity.
  • Overactive error processing is also observed in anxiety disorders, suggesting shared neural mechanisms.
  • It remains unclear if feedback processing, specifically the feedback-related negativity (FRN), is altered in OCD or differs between self-performed and observed outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate feedback processing and performance monitoring in OCD patients compared to healthy controls (HCs) and social anxiety disorder (SAD) patients.
  • To examine differences in learning from self-performed versus observed outcomes in OCD.
  • To explore potential shared mechanisms between OCD and SAD.

Main Methods:

  • Compared electroencephalography (EEG) data from 27 OCD patients, 27 HCs, and 29 SAD patients during an active and observational probabilistic feedback learning task.
  • Analyzed event-related potentials, focusing on the feedback-related negativity (FRN).

Main Results:

  • OCD patients demonstrated impaired task performance and more indecisive behavior compared to HCs across both learning conditions.
  • OCD patients showed generally more positive FRN amplitudes, with enhanced valence coding for wins, particularly in active learning.
  • No significant differences in FRN responses to losses were observed between groups.

Conclusions:

  • OCD is associated with deficient reward processing rather than punishment processing.
  • Similar performance monitoring alterations in OCD and SAD suggest the involvement of general, disorder-shared mechanisms.
  • Intolerance of uncertainty, pessimism, and depressiveness are discussed as potential underlying mechanisms.