Smooth pursuit and saccadic eye movements and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test performance in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Psychiatry Res. 1993 Sep;48(3):191-200. doi: 10.1016/0165-1781(93)90071-n.

Abstract

Smooth pursuit eye movements (SPEMs), voluntary saccadic eye movements (VSEMs), and neuropsychological test (Touluse-Pieron Test and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test) performance were studied in 23 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and 27 age-matched normal control subjects. The patients performed more poorly than the control subjects on the SPEM and, to a lesser degree, VSEM measures. They also showed impairment on some aspects of the neuropsychological tests. No relationship was found between eye movement performance and neuropsychological impairment.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Eye Movements / physiology*
  • Female
  • Fixation, Ocular
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neuropsychological Tests*
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / diagnosis*
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / physiopathology
  • Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
  • Saccades / physiology*
  • Task Performance and Analysis