Roth R M, Baribeau J
Laboratory of Human Neurophysiology and Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
J Nerv Ment Dis. 1996 Jul;184(7):411-6. doi: 10.1097/00005053-199607000-00003.
Previous research suggests that compulsive checking is associated with a deficit in memory for actions. In addition, evidence indicates frontal lobe involvement in both obsessive-compulsive disorder and in the monitoring of self-ordered actions. We examined the relationship between compulsive checking and performance on tests putatively related to frontal and temporal lobe memory functions. Subjects consisted of two groups of 14 university students identified as checkers or noncheckers according to the checking subscale of the Maudsley Obsessional-Compulsive Inventory. Checkers demonstrated significantly poorer ability to monitor their responses on the frontal task and a trend toward better long-term visuospatial memory. When the effect of trait anxiety was controlled for, the frontal effect was reduced to a trend, but the visuospatial memory advantage was enhanced. Although both a frontal deficit and enhanced long-term visuospatial memory may contribute to compulsive checking, trait anxiety seems to play a moderating role.
先前的研究表明，强迫性检查与动作记忆缺陷有关。此外，有证据表明额叶参与了强迫症以及对自我排序动作的监测。我们研究了强迫性检查与假定与额叶和颞叶记忆功能相关的测试表现之间的关系。研究对象包括两组14名大学生，根据莫兹利强迫观念-强迫行为量表的检查分量表，将他们分为检查者或非检查者。检查者在额叶任务中监测自己反应的能力明显较差，并且在长期视觉空间记忆方面有更好的趋势。当控制特质焦虑的影响时，额叶效应减弱为一种趋势，但视觉空间记忆优势增强。虽然额叶缺陷和增强的长期视觉空间记忆都可能导致强迫性检查，但特质焦虑似乎起到了调节作用。
