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Cognitive behavioral therapy normalizes brain abnormality in OCD patients – EurekAlert
UCLA scientists and colleagues studying the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) discovered an abnormality in the brains of people with obsessive compu…
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FINDINGS
UCLA scientists and colleagues studying the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) discovered an abnormality in the brains of people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) that may help to predict who is most likely to respond to CBT. Researchers used functional MRI scans to obtain a measure called hemodynamic response function (HRF), which is a marker of how blood flows to certain tissues in the brain.
Researchers found…
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