Testing goal-directed explanations of perseverative and overly exploratory behavior in obsessive-compulsive disorder with behavioral and neuroscientific methods KU Leuven
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by perseverative symptoms – obsessions and compulsions. Accumulating evidence suggests that behavior in OCD can also go into the opposite extreme and become overly exploratory. Explanations of behaviors in OCD are usually based on dual-process models, which differentiate between goal-directed and habitual behavior. Some authors suggest that perseverative ...