Looking back, I may have had symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder even earlier than I realized.However, since I became ...

Treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a mental health condition characterized by distressing, uncontrollable ...

Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric condition characterized by recurrent obsessions, or unwanted thoughts, ...

Several years ago, I was diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) at a hospital.It wasn't that my symptoms suddenly ...

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 ...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a mental health disorder, "where a person gets caught in a vicious cycle of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors," explains Guerra. The thoughts and fears such ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Lieber Institute for Brain Development have identified substantial similarities in brain gene activity among people with eating ...

Obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a misunderstood mental illness despite affecting about one in 50 people – that’s about half a million Australians. Our new research shows how long and fraught ...

Our thoughts are often mysterious to us. You probably don't know why you suddenly think about a Komodo dragon while sitting in traffic or Citizen Kane while shopping for groceries. Such moments remind ...

New functional neurosurgery techniques could help reduce symptoms in some patients with treatment-resistant OCD and major ...

You likely know what OCD stands for, but many people don't know what having obsessive-compulsive disorder actually means. For therapists like Erin Venker, she often feels like OCD is misunderstood.

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) is a chronic condition in which a person demonstrates an excessive focus on details, order and rules, and the need to achieve a perfect outcome, often ...