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In recent years, public awareness of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) has increased dramatically. As a result, when we think of OCD, we tend to think of germaphobes who can’t touch doorknobs or ...
A specific pattern of brain activity in a frontal brain region is linked to compulsive behaviors like excessive hand washing, ...
Yet everything Matt knew about OCD, he tells me, came from daytime talk shows where "people were washing their hands 1,000 times a day—it was all about external and really extreme behaviors." And that ...
Because of a traumatic experience, Justin Keyes has been dealing with obsessive-compulsive disorder for a decade. For him, that has meant, in part, washing his hands. "Like, I'm constantly getting up ...
FARGO - Tamara Wagner's obsessive-compulsive disorder was so severe that for a while she refused to leave her home. "It took such a good chunk of my life that I really didn't have time to do anything ...
Carey Wilson receives funding from the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. Thibault Renoir receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and ...