A French study has shown that deep brain stimulation can improve symptoms of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Serotonin reuptake inhibitors and behavioral therapy constitute the standard ...

I’d sit at my school desk, frozen in terror, unable to concentrate on what the teacher was saying – it was as if my brain had ...

Growing up, I have always tried to be meticulous and diligent in my studies — a perfectionist of sorts. But in 2017, when I ...

The largest-ever functional imaging study of the brains of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and healthy comparison volunteers, shows significant differences in activity in regions ...

High school student from The Hockaday School in Dallas writes about dealing with OCD and how damaging it is for teenagers to ...

OCD affects over half a million people in the UK and is a condition around which there many popular misconceptions. Many of us will have used the expression “I’m being a bit OCD” when we ...

Delay Discounting and Risk Tolerance in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Results From the Global OCD Study. Clinical Psychological Science , 2024; DOI: 10.1177/21677026241289927 Cite This Page : ...

A Plus One student's death threat highlights the urgency of addressing children's behavioural problems. Learn about causes, ...

A brain surgery technique being developed could help more than 750,000 people in the UK with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Researchers in Korea found that the non-invasive procedure using ...

A with psychiatry and behavioral sciences professor Alik Widge, a lead author of the University of Minnesota study.