Although it’s not entirely clear what causes obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), neuroimaging studies suggest that people with the condition have distinct differences in their brain structure ...

When someone has OCD, their brain’s threat detection system, the part that’s supposed to help us sense danger and keep us safe, becomes overly sensitive and misfires.

Using brain imaging, researchers have found that obsessive-compulsive disorder affects particular areas of the brain involved in processing certainty during the decision-making process.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects up to 3 percent of people worldwide and remains one of the most challenging mental health conditions to treat effectively. That makes any fresh insight ...

Neurosurgeon Ahmed Raslan theorized that the inch-long device could help lessen Pearson’s OCD in addition to treating her epilepsy, given that the area of her brain where her seizures occurred ...

Previous studies with deep brain stimulation and people with OCD found a low-frequency brainwave appearing in the basal ganglia — an area of the brain involved in coordinating movement ...

An emerging brain stimulation method could be the next great asset to treating obsessive-compulsive disorder in over two million adults in the United States. In Cell, Dr. Young-Hoon Nho and ...

The pooled brain scan data used in the new paper was collected when OCD patients and healthy people were asked to perform certain tasks while lying in a powerful functional MRI scanner.

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She said she remembers having OCD as a child, but it got to be the worst it’s ever been when she was in her 20s. “The OCD was just growing and growing and had really taken over everything.