A dog on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is being used in a rather unique way: helping patients with ...

A new study suggests that certain gut bacteria may influence the risk of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Using Mendelian ...

OCD involves a set of obsessions and compulsions that causes great distress and affects people’s quality of life. Obsessions can include unwanted intrusive thoughts, images or urges that dominate the ...

Researchers have demonstrated a specific type of genetic variation in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) for the first time ...

Trauma Services reports hoarding disorder is rising, driven by trauma and stress, especially since the pandemic, requiring ...

A new study published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking has shed light on why some people have ...

Researchers testing a novel treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder found that pairing brain stimulation with ...

The study compared data from patients and healthy individuals from Brazil, Canada, and the United States. The results help paint a clearer picture of how genetics influences the development of OCD.

Our 8-year-old son got sick with strep throat and had to miss a family camping trip. When my sister called to check on him, ...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation with added symptom provocation was effective compared with sham for both ...

A large-scale meta-analysis indicates that provoking symptoms immediately before repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) may enhance its effectiveness for obsessive-compulsive disorder ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers have linked rare “de novo” genetic mutations—copy number variants (CNVs)—to pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).