A child with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) undergoes imaging of brain. Which of the following structures is likely to show atrophy?
Correct Answer: Caudate nucleus
Description: Solutions: - Neuroanatomical Structures Involved in OCD Orbitofrontal Coex Caudate (which is a pa of Basal Ganglia) Thalamus Extra edge: Other impoant Brain areas and associated psychiatric disorders : Psychiatric Disorders Brain Areas involved 1. Anxiety disorders Locus ceruleus Raphe nucleus Caudate nucleus Temporal coex Frontal coex 2. Depression Damage to the left frontal lobe 3. Alzheimer's disease Hippocampus
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