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

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a neurological disorder characterized by repeated behaviors such as cleaning and checking despite clear objective evidence of cleanliness, orderliness, and ...

Although obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can involve high anxiety levels, doctors no longer classify it as an anxiety disorder. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a highly misunderstood ...

On The Point, our panel of mental health providers discuss obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). We discuss what OCD is, and ...

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 in The ...

A specific pattern of brain activity in a frontal brain region is linked to compulsive behaviors like excessive hand washing, ...

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. The thoughts and fears such ...

Mixed reality exposure and response prevention (MERP) therapy showed no significant advantage over self-guided exposure and response prevention (SERP) therapy among individuals with ...

Our thoughts are often mysterious to us. You probably don't know why you suddenly think about a Komodo dragon while sitting in traffic or Citizen Kane while shopping for groceries. Such moments remind ...