Abraham Lincoln's Profound Depression Lincoln suffered from severe and incapacitating depressions that occasionally led to ...

Compulsively counting objects or actions is a common symptom of OCD. Exposure therapy can help you develop coping mechanisms when you encounter triggers. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a ...

There is no consensus as to how many OCD subtypes exist, or even what those subtypes are. For instance, some contend that ...

The number of 16-24 year olds in England reporting symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, has more than tripled in a decade, BBC analysis of NHS data has found. The condition is now the ...

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 ...

People often jokingly say they’ve “got a bit of OCD” (obsessive-compulsive disorder) if they are overly organised or tidy. But OCD is actually a severe and disabling disorder characterised by ...

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 ...

Using brain imaging, researchers have found that obsessive-compulsive disorder affects particular areas of the brain involved in processing certainty during the decision-making process. The findings ...

Topics explored will include the following: -Intrusive thoughts (what are they, why do they happen, how do I manage them?) -Compulsions (what are they, why they don't help) -The OCD cycle: How to use ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical procedure that entails the delivery of high-frequency electrical impulses to ...

Specialized Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: An Expert Clinician Guidebook, Routledge, 2016, by Dr. The Canadian Treatment Centre for Obsessive Compulsive Disorders ...