Review Note
Last Update: 03/29/2025 12:39 AM
Current Deck: Clinical Medicine I::Week 12 - Psychiatric Conditions Part 1
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What is the Cortico-striatal-thalamic-cortical (CSTC) circuit and how does it influence the development of OCD?
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This circuit plays a role in motor control, habit formation, and reward processing
- in OCD there is inc activity of this circuit --> overemphasis on habit formation and repetitive behaviors
- a learned behavior will lead to a neurochemical reward --> conditioning and priming this circuit for repeating this behavior --> viscous continuous cycle of repeating a behavior to reach a neurochemical reward/conditioning
- in OCD there is inc activity of this circuit --> overemphasis on habit formation and repetitive behaviors
- a learned behavior will lead to a neurochemical reward --> conditioning and priming this circuit for repeating this behavior --> viscous continuous cycle of repeating a behavior to reach a neurochemical reward/conditioning
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