Obsessive-compulsive disorder following brain injury: a review.
OBJECTIVE
This article reviews obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) following acquired brain injury. OCD type symptomatology without any other cognitive, behavioral, or emotional problems following a brain injury appears to be rare. However, the first onset of obsessions and compulsions following a brain injury has been described, but cognitive impairments can potentially color the presentation.


METHODS
This article reviews obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) after brain injury, including traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular accidents, brain tumors and brain infections. Overlapping symtomatology between OCD and brain injury is discussed.


RESULTS
Findings regarding the neuro-imaging of OCD after brain injury are reviewed and integrated with neuropsychological data from studies with idiopathic OCD.


CONCLUSIONS
There appears to be some convergance between findings from studies of the neuropsychology of idiopathic OCD and neuro-imaging of OCD following brain injury.
Coetzer
Bernardus R
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North Wales Brain Injury Service, Conwy & Denbighshire NHS Trust, Colwyn Bay Hospital, United Kingdom. Rudi.Coetzer@cd-tr.wales.nhs.uk
D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D020806:Central Nervous System Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed