Obsessive compulsive disorder has many unknowns, including what causes it, why symptoms can differ so much between people, ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Scientists have identified the first brainwave biomarkers for OCD, opening the door to personalized, on-demand brain stimulation that targets distressing compulsive behaviors as they arise.

That makes any fresh insight into OCD's root causes especially valuable – like a new study pointing to a surprising suspect: the bacteria living in our gut. The research from China explored how the ...

The measured activity of entire neural networks was then filtered for brain waves with different frequencies. The researchers discovered that two of these waves, the alpha and delta waves, were ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...