The holidays can exacerbate symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder but new research into its causes is leading to greater ...

Art challenges others to confront their fears and suffering.

The most popular OCD treatment, exposure-response prevention, teaches you to desensitize yourself to the terror of whatever ...

Treatment for OCD can be delivered through outpatient therapy, via an intensive outpatient therapy program (IOP), or at a residential treatment center. Some people can also benefit from self-help in ...

Supporting a loved one through their journey with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) can be challenging yet meaningful. As ...

Objective: We investigated whether social skills are impaired in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), whether they changed over the course of treatment, and whether OCD severity, age of ...

For Millennials and Gen Z, "OCD" might seem like a trendy buzzword for an obsession with cleanliness. But hold on—there's so ...

Researchers from Yale University have discovered a potential cause of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in some children, ...

More information: Kyung Won Chang et al, Long-term clinical outcome of a novel bilateral capsulotomy with focused ultrasound in refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder treatment, Molecular ...

If you have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), you have obsessive thoughts and compulsive rituals and behaviours. OCD affects 1 in 50 people in the UK. A mix of different factors can cause OCD. The ...

Mavoglurant is under development for the treatment of cocaine use disorder, alcohol use disorder and for language learning in young children with fragile X syndrome (FXS). The drug candidate is ...