The association between childhood trauma and motor structure in obsessive-compulsive rituals: An ethological and evolutionary approach.
Matteo TonnaRebecca OttoniDavide Fausto BorrelliLuca GambolòLaura Dell'UvaAnna Di DonnaStefano ParmigianiCarlo MarchesiPublished in: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy (2023)
Our findings, in confirming a peculiar motor structure for OCD compulsions, hint for the first time at a link between CTEs and compulsive repetition of functional acts, which would represent a plastic developmental response to CTEs unpredictability. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).