title: Suppression of obsessive-compulsive symptoms after head trauma.
abstract: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) encompasses a spectrum of clinical symptoms characterized by unwanted thoughts coupled with an intense compulsion to act and to repeat behavior fragments in a ritualistic and stereotyped sequence. Obsessive-compulsive symptom due to brain lesions is not rare, but suppression of these symptoms after head trauma is very rare and we found only 3 cases in review of literatures from 1966 to 2001. The case of a patient suffering with severe OCD is described of note; her symptoms disappeared following right temporo-parietofrontal lesion.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari 48154-66848, Iran.
authors.forename: Seyed Hamzeh
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Hosseini
authors.forename: Paria
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Azari
authors.forename: Roohollah
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Abdi
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Alizadeh-Navaei