To explore the relationship between negative affect, mind-wandering, rumination and obsessive-compulsive symptoms, 100 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and 100 healthy controls were assessed using the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory, the Beck ...
Pengchong Wang +16 more
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Providing a structural model for predicting symptoms of practical obsessive compulsive disorder based on religious adherence the mediating role of personality function [PDF]
Introduction: Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a clinical syndrome, characterized by disturbing and intrusive thoughts, images, or impulses and repetitive behaviors.
Shabnam Karami +3 more
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Common Dermatoses in Patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorders [PDF]
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a chronic, debilitating syndrome, consisting of intrusive thoughts- which are experienced as inappropriate by the patient and are producing anxiety- and compulsions, defined as repetitive behaviours produced to reduce ...
Benea, Vasile +4 more
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Clinical features of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) were found to be similar in various cultures. However, there was no report about phenomenology of this disorder from Moslem or Arab cultures. This study is a review of 45 cases who presented as a psychiatric clinic at a general university hospital in Saudi Arabia.
A S, Al-Sabaie +2 more
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder [PDF]
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is one of the more common serious mental illnesses. The shame and secrecy associated with it, as well as lack of recognition of its characteristic symptoms, can lead to delay in diagnosis and treatment. Effective psychological and drug treatments are available for the distressing, time consuming, repetitive thoughts and ...
I, Heyman, D, Mataix-Cols, N A, Fineberg
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When psychosis follows obsession – a schizo-obsessive disorder case report
Introduction The relation between obsessive-compulsive symptoms and psychosis presents in different ways. While obsessive-compulsive symptoms can present as prodromes of schizophrenia, or in overlap with psychotic phenomenology, a new clinical entity ...
F. Pereira, P. Martins, J. Barros
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Diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the course of bipolar disorder
Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the coexistence of obsessive-compulsive symptoms with bipolar disorder (during the manic phase, depressive phase and remission).
Maciej Żerdziński
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Bipolar Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Comorbidity [PDF]
The comorbidity of bipolar disorder and anxiety disorders is a well known concept. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is the most commonly seen comorbid anxiety disorder in bipolar patients.
Lut Tamam, Necla Keskin
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Lifetime Bipolar Disorder comorbidity and related clinical characteristics in patients with primary Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: a report from the International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS) [PDF]
IntroductionBipolar disorder (BD) and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) are prevalent, comorbid, and disabling conditions, often characterized by early onset and chronic course.
Benatti, Beatrice +20 more
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Abnormal Spontaneous Neural Activity in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. [PDF]
Neuroimaging studies of obsessive-compulsive disorder have found abnormalities in orbitofronto-striato-thalamic circuitry, including the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, caudate, and thalamus, but few studies have explored abnormal ...
Li Ping +8 more
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