September 10, 2025PsychophysiologyOpen Access

Altered Reward Processing in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: Insights From Active and Observational Learning

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OCD patients exhibited impaired task performance and indecisive choice behavior compared to healthy controls.
Higher amplitudes of the feedback-related negativity in OCD indicate altered reward processing focused specifically on wins.
Comparison involved 27 OCD patients, 27 healthy controls, and 29 patients with social anxiety disorder using EEG during learning tasks.
Results suggest shared disorder-general mechanisms might underlie the performance monitoring alterations observed.

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Study compares reward processing and performance monitoring in OCD and anxiety disorders, indicating shared mechanisms.

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