title: Obsessive-compulsive-spectrum symptoms in patients with focal dystonia, hemifacial spasm, and healthy subjects.
abstract: This study is aimed at investigating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in three groups of patients matched for age and gender; namely, focal dystonia (FD), hemifacial spasm (HFS), and healthy-control subjects (HC). All subjects were investigated with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-I, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Symptom Checklist-90, the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, and the Structured Clinical Interview for Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Self-Report, Lifetime Version (SCI-OBS-SR-LT). The prevalence of OCD was significantly higher in both FD and HFS than in HC participants. On the SCI-OBS, HFS patients showed higher scores than FD or HC for "contamination" and "aggressiveness." Despite the different pathophysiology, OCD is highly represented in both FD and HFS, with different thematic content characterizing the two conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical & Experimental Medicine, A. Avogadro University; Division of Neurology, University Hospital, Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy. marco.mula@med.unipmn.it
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mula
authors.forename: Gionata
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Strigaro
authors.forename: Antonella E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Marotta
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ruggerone
authors.forename: Antonella
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tribolo
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Monaco
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cantello
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D020821:Dystonic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D019569:Hemifacial Spasm / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013223:Statistics as Topic