Comparing neuropsychological profiles in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder with normal group

There is a few research that have examined on neuropsychological ­deficits in Obsessive Compulsive Personality disorder (OCPD). In addition, neuropsychological disfunction ­can also be in relationship with obsessive compulsive personality symptoms. OCPD symptoms like rigid bounds to rules, can be compensation for cognitive deficits, and in other hand, considering the relation between OCPD and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and regarding neuropsychological functions pattern in OCD, It is hypothesized that patients with OCPD also showed deficits in neuropsychological assessments. So ­neuropsychological profile of patients with OCPD and OCD have been compared with control healthy participants. In the present study, a neuropsychological test battery was administered to patients with OCPD, OCD and control healthy participants. Results of multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) showed that there is a significant difference in neuropsycological assessments of cognitive flexibility, problem solving and working memory between patients with OCPD and OCD. Our results suggest that OCD and OCPD patients have cognitive impairment in cognitive flexibility, problem solving and working memory. However impairment pattern was differed between OCD and OCPD patients.