While working at the NIH, she wrote “The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing,” a groundbreaking study of OCD. She also researched ...

People with OCD tend to give themselves a hard time. When they're stuck on an obsession, they reach a critical choice point, Jerud says: They can either give in to their urges to try to reduce their ...

People with relationship OCD, on the other hand—or R-OCD, a lesser-known subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder—can’t.

A mouse study highlights the role of acetylcholine in behavioral flexibility, offering new insight into the brain mechanisms involved in addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder.

Acetylcholine "conductors" in the striatum directly trigger serotonin release, offering new insights into the origins of OCD and chemical imbalances.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a common, chronic mental health disorder. (Photo: Getty Images) (Getty ...

Media attention on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has caused better recognition by the lay public as well as by clinicians, leading to an apparent increase in prevalence of this disorder.

A scoping review of seven studies plus one abstract identified menopause-associated OCD onset in 5% of women reporting onset and symptom worsening in 27% of those reporting change. Reproductive ...