Using the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, the patient’s obsessive-compulsive score reduced from 32 to 20 pre- and post-implant, a 37.5% reduction from baseline.

Cameron Mofid, 25, recently traveled to North Korea — making him one of few that have traveled to all 195 countries. Mofid ...

Roughly 163 million people experience obsessive-compulsive disorder and its associated cycles of obsessions and compulsions. They have unwanted intrusive thoughts, images or urges; they also do ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder affects more than 8 million adults in the U.S., yet it is seen by many as a personality trait instead of the affliction it is."It's actually a serious and potentially ...

Although not all compulsive buyers are particularly interested with such distinctions, there's some uncertainty among the mental health profession about whether to see overshopping as a genuine ...

Rumination happens when you feel stuck in a cycle of negative thoughts. It can accompany or lead to various mental health ...

Researchers have demonstrated a specific type of genetic variation in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) for the first time using advanced DNA sequencing technology. The findings support previous ...

METHODOLOGY: This randomised clinical trial (2022-2024) included 36 adults (mean age, 35.42 years; 66.7% women) with contamination-related OCD.

Around 2% of the global population struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD. That's roughly 163 million people who go through cycles of obsessions – unwanted intrusive thoughts ...