Dr. Michael Alcée encourages a more compassionate approach to OCD, one that honors creativity, emotional depth, and ...

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 ...

In recent reviews, psychiatrist Dr. Leonardo Fontenelle and colleagues describe how obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, ...

For people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), daily life can be a debilitating struggle. Consumed by intrusive thoughts that trigger feelings of distress, people with OCD can get caught in a ...

“‘Just right’ OCD” is a nonclinical way to describe an urge to ensure things are symmetrical or “just right” that can occur in OCD. This condition can be treated with therapy or by addressing ...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Researchers found data that showed obsessive compulsive symptoms in patients with schizophrenia are linked to poor outcomes. According to recent research findings, almost ...

A new study reveals that certain brain regions are more active in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) during cognitively demanding tasks. The findings could help inform new ways in which ...

New research has shown how a technique that measures patterns of brain activity can be used to diagnose and monitor obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in people who undergo deep brain stimulation ...

Religious OCD, or scrupulosity, is a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) where a person experiences obsessions and compulsions that fixate on religion or morality. Treatment can involve ...