Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is manifested by extreme anxiety that is driven by repetitive unpleasant thoughts (RUTs). Most people associate it with disruptive compulsive behaviors, such as ...

Stephen King's chilling novella N. (published in Just Before Sunset collection) details a kind of communicable form OCD that ...

Around 2% of the population struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD. That's roughly 163 million people who go through cycles of obsessions – unwanted intrusive thoughts, images or urges – ...

When someone likes things just so or always seems to have their home in perfect condition, others may say “he is so OCD.” But OCD — obsessive-compulsive disorder — isn’t a nifty personality trait of ...

For the first time, researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Amsterdam UMC have identified what happens in neural networks deep within the brain during obsessive thoughts and ...

Some people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) experience a type of compulsion called compulsive counting. These individuals may feel the need to count objects, people, or actions.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a brain circuit that can drive repetitive and compulsive ...

Roughly 163 million people experience obsessive-compulsive disorder and its associated cycles of obsessions and compulsions. They have unwanted intrusive thoughts, images or urges; they also do ...