Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: PW138
Diagnosis: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
US Patients: 1.2% at a given time
World Patients:
Sex Ratio:
Age Onset: before age 35
Brain Area: smaller dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is only one part of the brain apparently involved. Nucleus accumbens stimulation has helped.
Symptoms: out-of-control routines with repeated thoughts-obessions; repeated actions-compulsions; sex, organization, cleaning, hoarding
Progression:
Causes: genetic affected by several different genes; depression, drug use, anxiety
Medications: antidepressants, SSRIs,
Therapies: CBT may help, but there are insufficient studies proving its worth.
Youtube Video: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Amazon or Library Book: Standing Up to OCD: Workbook for Kids
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Support Group: iocdf.org; 617-973-5801
(International OCD Foundation
– This website includes a meeting directory.)
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
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PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Reappraising beliefs about losing control: An experimental investigationby Cailyn P E A Fridgen on January 21, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that pre-existing beliefs about losing control can be reduced via a brief cognitive reappraisal-based intervention. Findings are discussed with respect to clinical and phenomenological implications.
- Network analysis of caffeine use disorder, withdrawal symptoms, and psychiatric symptomsby Mohammadreza Davoudi on January 21, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: Mental health providers should target these specific symptoms in clinical interventions to mitigate caffeine-related problems among individuals in the general population effectively.
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder secondary to focal brain lesions: from lesions to networksby Goncalo Cotovio on January 20, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: Lesional OCD has specific patterns of brain lesion topography and functional connectivity, with LNMs associated to brain functional patterns in primary OCD.
- Multigenerational family coaggregation study of obsessive-compulsive disorder and cardiometabolic disordersby Anna Holmberg on January 20, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: Our results do not support a major contribution of familial factors to the association between OCD and cardiometabolic disorders, suggesting a more prominent role of unique environmental factors.