A Lesion (sham lesion vs. NAc lesion) by Drug (saline vs. DPAT) anova was used to evaluate each criterion measure of compulsive checking and the measure of post-checking satiety.
Figure 8 Meta-analysis of risperidone treatment vs placebo for obsessive-compulsive disorder, measured as odds ratios.
The Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DOCS) was designed to address the current limitations of existing obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptom measures and is a self-report questionnaire that assesses the severity of the four most empirically supported OC symptom dimensions.
Levi's art grew out of a measured, compulsive honesty.
Although both psychometric scales were designed to measure compulsive buying, the two instruments appear to be distinct in how they conceptualize the compulsive buying phenomenon.
The present study's results suggest, among other things, that it does in fact appear to matter how compulsive buying is measured.
However, behavioural paradigms have been established, especially in animals self-administering cocaine, that do measure compulsive drug seeking and taking.
A rat may complete a bout of checking but not start the next bout during the session and hence the number of rats used for the 'time to next checking bout' was generally smaller than for the four criteria measures for compulsive checking.
The results showed that pre-cocaine exposure lesions of the ACC, PLC, ILC, OFC or AIC did not result in compulsive cocaine seeking, as measured by its resistance to punishment.
To assess the severity of shopping compulsions, researchers have developed measures like the "Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale/Shopping Version" (YBOCS-SV), the "Addictive Buying Indicator" and the "Compulsive Buying Scale".
