Recent research has suggested that some executive dysfunctions in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) represent an epiphenomenon of comorbid depressive symptoms. The present study investigated whether the impact of comorbid depressive symptoms on cognitive dysfunction in OCD extends to nonverbal memory impairment.
University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hospital for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Clinical Neuropsychology Unit, Hamburg, Germany. moritz@uke.uni-hamburg.de