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Disgust-reduction evaluative conditioning (DREC) and tDCS in contamination-based OCD: a randomized controlled trial.

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Authors: Faezeh Raeis Al Mohaddesin1, Ali Moghimi1, Hamidreza Kobravi2, Elahe Yaghoubian1, Javad Salehi Fadardi3,4,5
ORCID iDs: Faezeh Raeis Al Mohaddesin, Ali Moghimi, Hamidreza Kobravi, Elahe Yaghoubian, Javad Salehi Fadardi
  1. Rayan Research Center for Neuroscience and Behavior, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Azadi Square, Mashhad, Iran
  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Islamic Azad University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
  3. School of Community and Global Health, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, USA
  4. School of Psychology and Education, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
  5. School of Psychology, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
Institutions: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (Iran); Islamic Azad University, Mashhad (Iran); Claremont Graduate University (United States)
Journal: BMC psychiatry, volume 26, issue 1, article 414
Dates: received 29 November 2025; accepted 23 February 2026; published online 6 April 2026
Type: Research article · Language: English
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Identifiers: DOI 10.1186/s12888-026-07934-0 · PMID 41942946 · PMCID PMC13188325 · OpenAlex W4411080467
Open access: gold, a free copy (OpenAlex)
Preprint: doi:10.1101/2025.06.04.25328293
Status: data only
Categories: EEG (modality), other (modality), human (organism), other condition (population), clinical / translational (subfield)
Methods: Statistics, Connectivity, Preprocessing, Spectral & time-frequency
Keywords: Contamination-based obsessive‒compulsive disorder, Disgust, Evaluative conditioning, Transcranial direct current stimulation, Orbitofrontal cortex
MeSH: Disgust*, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder*, Prefrontal Cortex*, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation*, Adult, Electroencephalography, Female, Humans, Male, Young Adult (* major topic)
Topic: Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience), according to OpenAlex
Funding: Cognitive Sciences and Technologies Council (11939); Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (11939)
Citations: not cited yet (Europe PMC); 72 references in the paper

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Raeis Al Mohaddesin, F., Moghimi, A., Kobravi, H., Yaghoubian, E., & Salehi Fadardi, J. (2026). Disgust-reduction evaluative conditioning (DREC) and tDCS in contamination-based OCD: a randomized controlled trial. BMC psychiatry, 26(1), 414. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-026-07934-0

BibTeX

@article{raeisalmohaddesin2026disgust,
author = {Raeis Al Mohaddesin, Faezeh and Moghimi, Ali and Kobravi, Hamidreza and Yaghoubian, Elahe and Salehi Fadardi, Javad},
title = {{Disgust-reduction evaluative conditioning (DREC) and tDCS in contamination-based OCD: a randomized controlled trial}},
journal = {BMC psychiatry},
year = {2026},
month = apr,
volume = {26},
number = {1},
pages = {414},
publisher = {BMC},
issn = {1471-244X},
doi = {10.1186/s12888-026-07934-0},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-026-07934-0},
pmid = {41942946},
pmcid = {PMC13188325}
}

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AU - Salehi Fadardi, Javad
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T2 - BMC psychiatry
J2 - BMC Psychiatry
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/04/06
VL - 26
IS - 1
SP - 414
SN - 1471-244X
PB - BMC
DO - 10.1186/s12888-026-07934-0
UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-026-07934-0
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