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Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 6 Correlation between BDNF and both executive function and severity of symptoms in OCD patients

From: Study of insight in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder and its relation to executive functions and serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor

 

BDNF in all OCD patients (n = 40)

BDNF in good to fair insight patients (n = 29)

BDNF in poor insight patients (n = 11)

rs

P

rs

P

rs

P

Y-BOCS Severity

 − 0.430

0.006

0.114

0.555

 − 0.291

0.385

Trail Making Test (second)

 Part A

 − 0.005

0.974

0.133

0.492

0.171

0.616

 Part B

 − 0.113

0.489

0.041

0.832

0.009

0.978

  1. Y-BOCS Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale, BDNF brain-derived neurotrophic factor
  2. rs Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, statistical significance at P < 0.05
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