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Humor Appreciation of Captionless Cartoons in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder by Vasilis P Bozikas; Mary H Kosmidis; Maria Giannakou; Aravela Adamopoulou; Xenia Gonda; Kostas Fokas; George Garyfallos is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background It seems that the core neural regions and cognitive processes implicated in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) pathophysiology may overlap with those involved in humor appreciation. However, to date, there have been no studies that have explored humor appreciation in OCD. The purpose of the present work was to investigate humor appreciation in a group of patients with OCD. ## Methods We examined 25 patients with OCD and 25 healthy controls, matched by age, education, and gender. We administered Penn's Humor Appreciation Test (PHAT), a computerized test comprising captionless cartoons by Mordillo. Each set of stimuli consisted of two almost identical drawings, one of which was funny due to the alteration of a detail in the cartoon, whereas the other was not funny. Severity of psychopathology was evaluated with the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS). ## Results No significant effect for group, gender or group × gender interaction was found on the PHAT scores. In OCD patients, humor appreciation was not significantly associated with age of onset, duration of illness, and obsessions, but correlated significantly with compulsions. ## Conclusions Humor apprecia
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- Author
- Vasilis P Bozikas; Mary H Kosmidis; Maria Giannakou; Aravela Adamopoulou; Xenia Gonda; Kostas Fokas; George Garyfallos
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); [London]: BioMed Central, 2005-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1744-859X)
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)