Touching repeatedly a particular object, biting your nails, washing your hands every ten minutes... these irrepressible rituals sometimes punctuate our lives, especially during periods of high anxiety ...

Researchers have scanned the brains of adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder, OCD, while they performed decision-making tasks and identified the specific areas affected by the condition. The ...

Additionally, the same group has found differences in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a part of the brain responsible for cognitive processing and decision making, between OCD patients and healthy ...

IFS for OCD, which is compatible with standard exposure and response prevention (ERP), brings comfort and respect to the internal system of parts.

Neuromodulation approaches for treatment resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This figure outlines a proposed sequential algorithm for neuromodulatory interventions in treatment-resistant ...

OCD is a powerful and often debilitating condition, but it is rooted in the mind's fundamental desire to protect the ...