Smooth pursuit and saccadic eye movements and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test performance in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Smooth pursuit eye movements (SPEMs), voluntary saccadic eye movements (VSEMs), and neuropsychological test (Touluse-Pieron Test and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test) performance were studied in 23 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and 27 age-matched normal control subjects. The patients performed more poorly than the control subjects on the SPEM and, to a lesser degree, VSEM measures. They also showed impairment on some aspects of the neuropsychological tests. No relationship was found between eye movement performance and neuropsychological impairment.
Gambini
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Department of Biomedical and Technological Sciences, University of Milan Medical School, Italy.
Abbruzzese
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Scarone
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D000328:Adult; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012438:Saccades / Q000502:physiology*; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis