Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a Woman with Left Basal Ganglia Infarct: A Case Report
This report presents a syndrome resembling obsessive convulsive disorder (OCD) secondary to a stroke in the left basal ganglia. The patient's syndrome is virtually identical to those that have been described in bilateral damage of the basal ganglia. However, the stroke described in this case re...
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| description | This report presents a syndrome resembling obsessive convulsive disorder (OCD) secondary to a stroke in the left basal ganglia. The patient's syndrome is virtually identical to those that have been described in bilateral damage of the basal ganglia. However, the stroke described in this case report is located unilaterally in the left basal ganglia. In addition, experience in treating a patient with OCD induced by structural damage of basal ganglia is presented. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8f954c535e244e15a38fea6ff5e757ba2025-08-20T03:38:08ZengWileyBehavioural Neurology0953-41801875-85841997-01-01102-310110310.3233/BEN-1997-102-308Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a Woman with Left Basal Ganglia Infarct: A Case ReportFaustino Lopez-Rodriguez0Ibrahim Gunay1Nancy Glaser2Department of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, NPI&H, 740 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USADepartment of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, NPI&H, 740 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USADepartment of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, NPI&H, 740 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USAThis report presents a syndrome resembling obsessive convulsive disorder (OCD) secondary to a stroke in the left basal ganglia. The patient's syndrome is virtually identical to those that have been described in bilateral damage of the basal ganglia. However, the stroke described in this case report is located unilaterally in the left basal ganglia. In addition, experience in treating a patient with OCD induced by structural damage of basal ganglia is presented.http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-1997-102-308 |
| spellingShingle | Faustino Lopez-Rodriguez Ibrahim Gunay Nancy Glaser Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a Woman with Left Basal Ganglia Infarct: A Case Report Behavioural Neurology |
| title | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a Woman with Left Basal Ganglia Infarct: A Case Report |
| title_full | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a Woman with Left Basal Ganglia Infarct: A Case Report |
| title_fullStr | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a Woman with Left Basal Ganglia Infarct: A Case Report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a Woman with Left Basal Ganglia Infarct: A Case Report |
| title_short | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a Woman with Left Basal Ganglia Infarct: A Case Report |
| title_sort | obsessive compulsive disorder in a woman with left basal ganglia infarct a case report |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-1997-102-308 |
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