Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects up to 3 percent of people worldwide and remains one of the most challenging mental health conditions to treat effectively. That makes any fresh insight into ...

A study co-authored by a Brown University computational cognitive neuroscientist showed how an SSRI improves cognitive ...

Last week, we pulled back the curtain on what it really means to live with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), beyond the jokes about being tidy or the throwaway lines about being ‘so OCD’. We ...

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 ...

Obsessive compulsive disorder has many unknowns, including what causes it, why symptoms can differ so much between people, ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have found signs of inflammation within the neuro-circuitry associated with adult obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The findings were reported June 21 in ...

A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry makes the case that symptom provocation may significantly improve the clinical effectiveness of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), a ...

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside identified the brainstem’s locus coeruleus as crucial for cognitive ...

Neurocognitive theories of OCD implicate specific brain systems involved. It has been suggested the faulty wiring of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) responsible for reward anticipation, ...