People diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder often struggle to recall specific personal memories, a cognitive trait ...

A woman’s OCD convinced her she had pushed someone off a bridge and left her unable to leave the house for three months.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What makes OCD even more debilitating is that such obsessive thoughts also cause the person to engage in repetitive behaviors that ...

The Loss and OCD Symptoms Scale is a newly validated tool designed to assess grief and loss among adults with OCD.

For the first time, researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Amsterdam UMC have identified what happens in neural networks deep within the brain during obsessive thoughts and ...

Although obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) can be treated, research has shown that people with the disorder tend to have a lower quality of life than neurotypical people. Many struggle to achieve ...

FRANTICALLY scrolling through her phone, Daniela Barroso texted her friends asking if she’d done something wrong. Thoughts ...

Shared genetic architecture may explain the co-occurrence of psychiatric disorders and metabolic abnormalities such as insulin resistance.

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) is a chronic condition in which a person demonstrates an excessive focus on details, order and rules, and the need to achieve a perfect outcome, often ...

Obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a misunderstood mental illness despite affecting about one in 50 people – that’s about half a million Australians. Our new research shows how long and fraught ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Lieber Institute for Brain Development have identified substantial similarities in brain gene activity among people with eating ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder. It causes a person to have intrusive, distressing thoughts, which they manage using compulsive behaviors. For example, a person, who fixates ...