A recent study from Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital has identified a specific neural activity pattern as a novel biomarker to accurately predict and monitor the clinical ...

A specific pattern of brain activity in a frontal brain region is linked to compulsive behaviors like excessive hand washing, chronic hair-pulling, and skin-picking in people with obsessive compulsive ...

What comes to mind when you read the words obsessive compulsive disorder? For many, the phrase likely conjures up an image of ...

A recent Cambridge University-led study found evidence that a new app that lets patients watch a video of themselves washing their hands or touching a dirty object could be key to improving obsessive ...

For the first time, researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Amsterdam UMC have identified what happens in neural networks deep within the brain during obsessive thoughts and ...

Severity of role impairment due to obsessions/compulsions by SDS category: household duties (A), work (B), relationship (C), social life (D) and any domain (E). O/C, obsessions/compulsions; SDS, ...

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BOSTON — Behavioral avoidance could limit the long-term efficacy of exposure response prevention (ERP), a widely used treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a new analysis shows. Although ...

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is common in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and is linked to a significant delay in the initiation of OCD treatment, study shows.