He’d struggled with obsessive compulsive disorder since childhood, but Cameron Mofid says that there was one thing that ...

OCD involves a set of obsessions and compulsions that causes great distress and affects people’s quality of life. Obsessions ...

Roughly 163 million people experience obsessive-compulsive disorder and its associated cycles of obsessions and compulsions.

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder tend to fixate on uncertainty and self-doubt, using unhealthy mechanisms to control ...

As parents, we want our children to thrive, but what happens when we don’t understand or recognize symptoms that may signal ...

M y tailbone presses against the wall as I sink to my bedroom floor, breathless and unable to move. I can’t think clearly.

A large-scale meta-analysis has shown that symptom provocation before repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) ...

OCD keeps your brain wired—even when you're exhausted. Learn why sleep is so disrupted for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and how tailored strategies can help them reclaim rest.

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, she asked me if I knew strep throat can cause obsessive-compulsive disorder.

How scientists study OCD genetics To find the genes involved in OCD risk, researchers use a method called a genome-wide association study, or GWAS.These studies compare the DNA of tens to hundreds ...