Blepharospasm and Obsessive‐Compulsive Disorder
作者:
KATALIN BIHARI,
TERESA PIGOTT,
JAMES HILL,
DENNIS MURPHY,
期刊:
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
(OVID Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 180,
issue 2
页码: 130-132
ISSN:0022-3018
年代: 1992
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Although essential blepharospasm is considered to be a form of focal dystonia, many patients with blepharospasm have been noted to have concomitant depression, anxiety, phobias, hypochondriasis, and other emotional and behavioral disorders, suggesting a psychiatric component to the disease that is phenomenologically similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in terms of the repetitive, perseverative, and persistent nature of the symptoms. The Maudsley OCD questionnaire was administered to 21 patients with blepharospasm and 19 normal controls. The blepharospasm patients scored significantly higher than the controls (p< .01). Although preliminary, the current study does support at least a phenomeno-logical link between OCD and blepharospasm.
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