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Pregnancy and obsessive-compulsive disorder

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1993
Trichotillomania, a disorder characterized by repetitive hair pulling, has been only recently systemically investigated. Such research was encouraged by data that showed obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is also characterized by ritual behaviors, responds selectively to serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
Dan J. Stein, Eric Hollander, Lisa R. Cohen, Michael Hwang, Daphne Simeon   +4 more
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

CONTINUUM: Lifelong Learning in Neurology, 2021
ABSTRACT PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article describes the phenomenology and clinical presentation of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a common but underdiagnosed psychiatric disorder. Guidance for effectively identifying obsessive-compulsive symptoms is provided, and treatment options, including psychotherapy ...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

2015
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common and debilitating psychiatric condition. Relatively little, however, is understood about the etiology and brain basis of OCD despite decades of research. Although neuroimaging findings in OCD frequently report abnormalities of the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and caudate nucleus, new ...
Grant, Jon E., Chamberlain, Samuel R.
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Assessment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Behavior Modification, 1999
Self-report assessment devices of obsessive-compulsive symptoms are widely used by behavior therapists. In the present investigation, psychometric characteristics and concurrent, discriminant, and factorial validity of the Maudsley Obsessional Compulsive Inventory (MOCI) were studied in clinical samples. Test-retest reliabilitywas high.
Emmelkamp, P.M.G., Kraaijkamp, H.J.M., van den Hout, M.A.   +2 more
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

CONTINUUM: Lifelong Learning in Neurology, 2015
This article discusses the neurobiology, clinical features, and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), as well as its association with psychiatric and neurologic disease.OCD can be associated with various neurologic disorders. Recent studies have better elucidated the neurobiology of OCD, and this new knowledge promises to have a significant
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Childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1981
Childhood obsessive compulsive disorder has recently been recognized as being more common than previously believed, supporting epidemiologic studies in adults that found rates far higher than clinical studies have suggested. Clinically, presentation is generally similar to that for adult patients, but compulsions may occur in the absence of obsessions ...
J, Rapoport, R, Elkins, D H, Langer, W, Sceery, M S, Buchsbaum, J C, Gillin, D L, Murphy, T P, Zahn, R, Lake, C, Ludlow, W, Mendelson   +10 more
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Neuromodulation in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2014
Neuromodulation techniques in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) involve electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and deep brain stimulation (DBS). This article reviews the available literature on the efficacy and applicability of these techniques in OCD.
Damiaan Denys, Martijn Figee, Melisse N. Bais   +2 more
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Defining clinical severity in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Psychological Assessment, 2014
Despite extensive use of the Children's Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CYBOCS; Scahill et al., 1997), the lack of normative data impedes interpretation of individual CYBOCS scores.
A. Lewin, J. Piacentini, Alessandro S. De Nadai, Anna-Marie Jones, T. Peris, G. Geffken, D. Geller, Joshua M. Nadeau, T. Murphy, E. Storch   +9 more
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Caudate glucose metabolic rate changes with both drug and behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1992
We used positron emission tomography to investigate local cerebral metabolic rates for glucose (LCMRG1c) in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder before and after treatment with either fluoxetine hydrochloride or behavior therapy.
L. Baxter, Jeffrey M. Schwartz, K. Bergman, M. Szuba, B. Guze, J. Mazziotta, A. Alazraki, C. Selin, H. Ferng, P. Munford   +9 more
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Pharmacotherapy of Obsessive-compulsive Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2006
This article reviews new developments of pharmacotherapy in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and OC spectrum disorders of the past five years. New developments primarily involved the ex-tension of evidence of efficacy of serotonin reuptake inhibitors(SRIs), the use of atypical antipsychotics in addition to SRIs for treatment refractory patients, the
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