A massive genetic analysis of more than 6 million people is revealing new clues about why mental health disorders frequently overlap.

Intrusive sexual thoughts are often misunderstood as hidden desire, when they are more accurately a symptom of OCD and a cycle of anxiety-driven doubt.

Her book about obsessive-compulsive disorder, written in an engaging style for nonscientific readers, clarified that the condition was far more common than generally thought, affecting some 1% to 3% ...

What most people think of when they hear the word “dementia” is memory problems and forgetfulness. But what people often ...

Medicinal cannabinoids show little strong evidence of helping mental health or substance use disorders, University of Sydney ...

While there are near-record numbers converting to Catholicism in some regions in the US, there’s no conclusive statistical ...

Cannabinoids may reduce symptoms of some substance use and mental disorders, but the quality of evidence was mostly low in a ...

The sense of agency (SoA), or the perception of control over one’s actions and their outcomes, has been proposed to be attenuated in individuals with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and ...

Psilocybin is being taken seriously in mental health research – not just for depression or anxiety, but now for obsessive-compulsive behaviors too. A growing number of studies suggest that a single ...

Many of us have wild thoughts that pop into our heads out of nowhere. But what if those thoughts were harmful and seemed to want to destroy good things in your life? And what if they happened all of ...

Mixed reality exposure and response prevention (MERP) therapy showed no significant advantage over self-guided exposure and response prevention (SERP) therapy among individuals with ...