Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects up to 3 percent of people worldwide and remains one of the most challenging ...

What is OCD? Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a mental health disorder, "where a person gets caught in a vicious cycle of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors," explains Guerra.

Brown said individuals with scrupulosity may start with an anxiety disorder or general OCD that “attaches itself” to their ...

For people with OCD, reassurance can be harmful. ChatGPT provides an infinite supply. Millions of people use ChatGPT for ...

A recent study from Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital has identified a specific neural activity pattern as a novel biomarker to accurately predict and monitor the clinical ...

For Millennials and Gen Z, "OCD" might seem like a trendy buzzword for an obsession with cleanliness. But hold on—there's so much more to it than meets the eye.

Compulsive washing in OCD is driven by unrelenting doubt. Metacognitive training for OCD A recent study conducted at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf by Dr. Steffan Moritz and ...

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 ...

As Tamar Chansky, Ph.D., founder of the Children's and Adult Center for OCD and Anxiety and author of Freeing Your Child From Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, tells Bustle, OCD is a disorder where ...

A new study comparing the DNA of over 50,000 people with OCD to nearly 2 million without it has helped identify 25 causal genes.

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 ...