Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects up to 3 percent of people worldwide and remains one of the most challenging mental health conditions to treat effectively. That makes any fresh insight into ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Lieber Institute for Brain Development have identified ...

Obsessive compulsive disorder has many unknowns, including what causes it, why symptoms can differ so much between people, how medication and therapy for it actually work, and why treatment is ...

Researchers studying obsessive-compulsive disorder have identified a specific brain signal that appears to precede the onset of compulsive urges, a finding that could reshape how clinicians approach ...

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 ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study revealed that certain brain regions are more active in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) during cognitively demanding tasks. The ...

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a relatively common illness where an individual tends to focus on a specific worry to a point that they cannot get rid of it; the worry tends to be intrusive in ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have found signs of inflammation within the neuro-circuitry associated with adult obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The findings were reported June 21 in ...

Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) capsulotomy provides lasting relief to patients with refractory OCD, according to the results from a clinical trial with a long-term follow-up of ...