Psychiatry Research
Volume 166, Issue 2 , Pages 247-253 , 30 April 2009

Comparable performance of patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and healthy controls for verbal and nonverbal memory accuracy and confidence: Time to forget the forgetfulness hypothesis of OCD?

Received 9 August 2007 ,Revised 1 November 2007 ,Accepted 11 February 2008.

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Psychiatry Research
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