OCD
‘Extreme difficulty’ trusting past experiences may be key factor for people with OCD, study says
Often, the human brain can overcome worries and fears by casting the mind back to past experiences that have worked ...
Treating obsessive compulsive disorder in just 4 days? Researchers tout intensive method
Psychologists and professors Gerd Kvale and Bjarne Hansen have developed a treatment program that helps patients get rid of their ...
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Behavior goes ‘haywire’: How strep throat may trigger OCD, anxiety in children
[Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infections, or PANDAS] is as puzzling for researchers as it is for the ...
Treating OCD and other anxiety disorders with brief, intensive therapy
For nearly 20 years [Thomas] Ollendick has been testing briefer, more intensive forms of [cognitive-behavioral therapy] for childhood anxiety disorders ...
Autism or OCD? Why it can be challenging to tell the difference
At first glance, autism and OCD appear to have little in common. Yet clinicians and researchers have found an overlap ...
Reversing OCD with intensive 4-day ‘head-on’ therapy
[A]round nine years after [Katherine] Mydland-aas’s cleaning rituals began, a psychologist diagnosed her with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and referred her ...
Are you responsible for bad behavior caused by a brain implant?
Mr. B loves Johnny Cash, except when he doesn’t. Mr. X has watched his doctors morph into Italian chefs right ...
