OCD

PTI New Delhi, December 4Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is the fifth most disabling psychiatric condition but not many people seek treatment for…

Imagine growing up tormented by fears and life-consuming rituals that make no sense to you or those around you. Then imagine the shame of being told by mental health providers that, because you understand that your behaviors are…

Researchers at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology have developed a new model of obsessive-compulsive disorder based on principles of reinforcement learning. This model may lead to better treatment for obsessive-compulsive and…

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeYou’ve probably heard it before; “I’m so OCD”, a flippantly shorthand expression for being a neat freak or a creature of habit. But for people who live with obsessive-compulsive disorder,…

By Shubhangi Shah ‘It’s OCD.’ Hearing such a statement by, or for, those who like things neat is not uncommon these days. For the uninitiated, OCD stands for obsessive-compulsive disorder, a mental health condition characterised by…

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However it’s packaged, purity—of mind, body, planet—doesn’t exist. “There is no primordial state we might wish to get back to, no Eden we have desecrated, no pretoxic body we might uncover through enough chia seeds and kombucha,” writes…

In a small study, researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health captured more than 1,000 hours of brain recordings from patients with OCD in the clinic and at home. These data are a key first step towards designing improved deep…

In an effort to improve treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder, a team of researchers has for the first time recorded electrical signals in the human brain associated with ebbs and flows in OCD symptoms over an extended period in their…

Both rare and commonly observed differences in the DNA letters strung along a person's chromosomes can explain about a third of the risk for being diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to a new study led by…