New York Post

Patient’s OCD, epilepsy curbed with electrical brain implant: ‘This is pretty remarkable’

At one point in her life, Amber Pearson spent eight hours a day acting out her obsessive thoughts. She washed her hands until they bled, repeatedly checked the locks on her doors and ate separately ...
News Medical

OCD patients may have higher risk of death from both natural and unnatural causes

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) may have an increased risk of death from both natural and unnatural causes than those without the disorder, finds a study from Sweden published by The ...
Nature

Deep clinical phenotyping of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: an approach towards detection of organic causes and first results

In the revised diagnostic classification systems ICD-11 and DSM-5, secondary, organic forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are implemented as specific nosological entities. Therefore, the aim ...
Yahoo

A psychologist shares 4 subtle signs a patient has OCD, even if they don't realize it

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou/Getty Images Roughly 2-3 million US adults are believed to have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Some ...
Medical Xpress

Imaging brain connections can predict improvements in OCD patients after deep brain stimulation

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a promising therapy for treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). A first-of-its-kind collaborative study led by researchers at Texas Children's Hospital ...
CNN

Deep brain stimulation didn’t work for a young OCD patient until new brain maps changed everything

Five years ago, in a wheelchair, Julia Hum was admitted to a state mental hospital in Massachusetts. After treatment with targeted deep brain stimulation, she hopes to walk out soon and, for the first ...

Eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder show shared brain gene expression changes

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

Why OCD compulsions grow from the need for absolute certainty

OCD and Intolerance of Uncertainty: Why the Need for Certainty Fuels CompulsionsObsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is ...
Nature

Mechanisms underlying capsulotomy for refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder: neural correlates of negative affect processing overlap with deep brain stimulation targets

OCD patients who underwent capsulotomy surgery (CAP), age- and gender-matched OCD controls (OCDc), and healthy controls (HC) were recruited from the outpatient clinic/institutional database at Ruijin ...
Psychology Today

OCD Patients Who Don’t Respond to Meds or Psychotherapy

Uncontrollable, recurring thoughts and behaviors that characterize obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are experienced by 2% to 3% of people. Yet standard treatments — exposure therapy and medicines ...
News Medical

Mapping neural connections in OCD patients can predict improvements after deep brain stimulation

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a promising therapy for treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). A first-of-its-kind collaborative study led by researchers at Texas Children's Hospital ...