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Abstract
Summary Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by recurrent intrusive, distressing thoughts and repetitive behaviours or rituals performed to reduce anxiety. Symptoms are often accompanied with feelings of shame and secrecy. The diverse manifestations of OCD make it difficult to be easily and early diagnosed. The average time it takes to receive treatment after meeting diagnostic criteria for OCD is 11 years. However, early recognition and treatment with OCD-specific therapies may improve outcomes and some may achieve remission. Patients with a later age of onset, shorter duration of symptoms, good insight, and response to initial treatment have an increased likelihood of remission. Recommended first-line therapies are cognitive behavioural therapy, specifically exposure and response prevention, and/or a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. Neuropsychological tests are specifically designed tasks that are used to measure a psychological function known to be linked to a particular brain structure or pathway. The aim of this work was to; assess neuropsychological functions in OCD patients which can point to the brain structures or pathways that are affected in patients of OCD and to study the correlation between these assessments and different clinical variables. To elucidate this aim; sixty participants were recruited in the study and they were selected by convenience sampling and were divided into two groups: - group I: thirty OCD patients diagnosed by SCID-CV according to DSM- IV who were selected from the outpatient psychiatry clinics in the Neuropsychiatry department of Tanta University Hospitals