Baxter L R
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.
J Clin Psychiatry. 1994 Oct;55 Suppl:54-9.
In the last 7 years, positron emission tomography (PET) scanning studies of obsessive compulsive disorder have given us new insights into misfunctionings of brain systems that may mediate the symptomatic expression of this classical "neurosis." Work by several PET groups indicates that a prefrontal cortex-basal ganglia-thalamic circuit may be the brain pathway leading to the broken record patterns of obsessions and compulsions.
在过去7年里，对强迫症的正电子发射断层扫描（PET）研究让我们对可能介导这种典型“神经症”症状表现的脑系统功能失调有了新的认识。几个PET研究小组的工作表明，前额叶皮质-基底神经节-丘脑回路可能是导致强迫观念和强迫行为反复出现模式的脑通路。
