ns may be affected (Robins, 1984,
WHAT ARE THE BIOLOGICAL/PHYSIOLOGICAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED
OCD may be one of the most biologically based of all mental
illnesses. L.N. Robins describes it as a "severe, chronic, biologically
rooted syndrome associated with abnormalities in the basal ganglia region
of the brain" (1984, 352). Brain imaging techniques have found distinctive
differences in glucose metabolism, neuroanatomy and blood flow in certain
regions of the brain in persons with OCD. Perhaps becau
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