CASE-STUDY - OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER AFTER SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY IN AN ADOLESCENT

Authors
MAX JE SMITH WL LINDGREN SD ROBIN DA MATTHEIS P STIERWALT J MORRISEY M
Citation
Je. Max et al., CASE-STUDY - OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER AFTER SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY IN AN ADOLESCENT, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 34(1), 1995, pp. 45-49
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry
Journal title
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
08908567
Volume
34
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
45 - 49
Database
ISI
SICI code
0890-8567(1995)34:1<45:C-ODAS>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
The neurological underpinnings of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are still largely undetermined. We report a prospective case study of a young subject who developed OCD and impulsive aggression after traum atic brain injury. The implications are that frontal and temporal lobe lesions may be sufficient to precipitate OCD in the absence of clear striatal injury and that compulsivity and impulsivity may represent di fferent psychophysiological states.