support limitations research

• case study 1995


  max et al investigated a 12 year old patient that developed symptoms of OCD after being hit by a car and damaging her brain
• saxena and rauch 2000


  conducted review of all the neuroimaging studies that looked at neural activity in the brains of adults with ocd
• saxena and rauch

  found that adults with ocd had increased activity in the orbitofrontal cortex compared to health control pariticpants
• saxena and rauch

  this supports idea that hyperactivity of neurons in orbitofrontal cortex causes ocd