Wilhelm S, McNally R J, Baer L, Florin I
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Br J Clin Psychol. 1997 Feb;36(1):21-31. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1997.tb01227.x.
Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) (N = 36) and healthy controls (N = 24) participated in an autobiographical memory experiment in which they were asked to retrieve specific personal memories in response to cue words having either positive (e.g. happy) or negative (e.g. anxiety) valence. Compared to control participants, OCD patients had difficulty retrieving specific memories and showed longer retrieval latencies. However, these overgenerality effects were not a function of OCD per se, but were related to a co-morbid diagnosis of major depression. The difficulty in retrieving specific autobiographical memories exhibited by OCD patients might reflect excessive cognitive capacity consumption due to pre-occupation with intrusive thoughts typical of major depression.
患有强迫症（OCD）的患者（N = 36）和健康对照组（N = 24）参与了一项自传体记忆实验，在该实验中，他们被要求根据具有积极（如快乐）或消极（如焦虑）效价的提示词来检索特定的个人记忆。与对照组参与者相比，强迫症患者在检索特定记忆方面存在困难，并且检索潜伏期更长。然而，这些过度泛化效应并非强迫症本身的作用，而是与重度抑郁症的共病诊断有关。强迫症患者在检索特定自传体记忆时遇到的困难可能反映了由于专注于重度抑郁症典型的侵入性思维而导致的认知能力过度消耗。
