Top Research Papers on OCD

The SCL6A4 gene has been the most extensively studied functional polymorphism in psychiatry, providing worldwide evidence of its importance in several disorders, such as OCD, and the 5HTT gene, located on chromosome 17q12 6, could be a good candidate for OCD.

Translating culture-specific terms is not an easy task as it comprises a number of problems and challenges. One of the biggest challenges that may the translators face when translating culture -specific terms is the process of achieving the cultural equivalence. The present paper tries to investigate the problems and difficulties that students face when translating culture-specific compliments from Kurdish Bahdini into English in various cultural situations. The paper precisely examines six Kurdish compliments and scrutinize their rendering into English language. In order to realize this aim, ...

To explore the heterogeneity of OCD, patients with OCD, with and without a lifetime history of a chronic tic disorder, were examined with respect to specific types of OC symptoms using the symptom checklist of the Yale—BrownObsessive Compulsive Scale (YBOCS) (Goodman eta!, 1989).

Although no SNPs were identified to be associated with OCD at a genome-wide significant level in the combined trio-case-control sample, a significant enrichment of methylation-QTLs and frontal lobe eQTLS was observed within the top-ranked SNPs from the triocase-control analysis, suggesting these top signals may have a broad role in gene expression in the brain, and possibly in the etiology of OCD.

Electroencephalographic findings of OCD show that OCD is associated with raised oscillatory power in slow frequency bands in the fronto-temporal brain regions, which agrees with the previous literature and therefore is a potential biomarker.

A concise review including the definition, epidemiology and symptomotology of OCD, patient selection criteria, and management options with focus on radiosurgery is provided.

Electroencephalographic event related potentials (ERP) findings indicate that individuals with OCD show altered frontal neural activity across multiple executive function related processes, supporting the frontal dysfunction theory of OCD.

Given the significant number of people who still struggle with chronic symptoms, new treatment techniques and ongoing research are necessary, even in the face of improvements in the understanding and treatment of OCD.

O Transtorno de Ansiedade Obsessivo-Compulsivo (TOC) e o Transtorno da Personalidade Obsessivo-Compulsiva (TPOC) mostram congruências conceituais que historicamente têm confundido o diagnóstico de muitos pesquisadores e clínicos. Em parte, as ambigüidades provavelmente ocorrem devido aos equívocos muitas vezes apresentados pelos instrumentos diagnósticos e também pelo despreparo profissional. A outra fração de erros certamente acontece devido à grande semelhança entre os fenômenos comportamentais. Pela pertinência clínica que o questionamento traz, faz-se mister um aprofundamento teórico. O ob...

We report an OCD case exhibiting strong fear against entities associated with bad omen was treated by exposure and response prevention behavioral therapy. The patient was a 60-year old unemployed female. She married at 28 years old. Soon after the marriage, her husband showed violent behavior against her in response to situations and occurrences that he did not like and the patient subsequently became to despair of her marriage. When she was 57 years old, she first experienced strong feelings of bad omen and disgust when she saw funeral company advertisements for Japanese Buddhist altars or gr...

Previous research indicates that OCD patients fail on tasks that require adequate functioning of the frontal-striatal pathways, and the results of the current study reinforces that view.

O OCD's classification shift in the DSM-5, the role of the cortico-striatothalamo- cortical pathway in its development, and the various factors contributing to its etiology, such as genes, environmental factors, and genetic predispositions are examined.

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is reflected similarly in different communities, while symptoms are affected by the patient's cultural and spiritual world, while understanding the cultural background of the patient is essential, in particular when the customer is ultra-orthodox and the treatment is considered "secular".

The present text carries out a characterization of the anomalous functioning of cognitive and emotional processes governed by the guidelines of a central dysexecutive control, modulated by persistent, negligent, and sometimes insensitive patterns to command lines of detection of external stimuli and required adjustment of focus according to changing keys of a demanding task-oriented context. Rumination as a metacognitive process, once anarchic, is in a domain-free domain capable of usurping memory and attentional resources by retrieving them to the self-referential self, making it a preferred ...

L'acronyme TOC-PANDAS designe ce nouveau type of TOC se presente en premiere intention sous un schema classique : association d'une TCC (therapie cognitivo-comportementale) and d'ISRS (inhibiteurs selectifs de recapture de the serotonine).

The present qualitative study aimed to identify the barriers to seeking treatment and the factors that encourage or push people to seek help for their OCD (positive and negative enablers).

The psychobehavioral aspects of OCD that are of importance on how the above ideas can be articulated are reviewed, and novel behavioral constructs for future investigations that may contribute to the face, predictive and construct validity of OCD animal models are identified.

In order to understand social recovery from mental illness, it is important to examine the role played by social space, including virtual space. This article examined blogs and online forums for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In particular, it addressed gender differences in the metaphors used by men and women in these virtual spaces. Empirical data illustrated that, in general, women are more likely to frame their experiences of OCD as a journey, whereas men are more likely to frame them as a battle. Use of these different metaphors has potential implications for social reco...

A "treatment-refractory" status should be assessed in each OCD individual according to responses to all available therapeutic alternatives, along with the long-term course and outcome, and definition of the condition as well as the optimization and standardization of the currently best available treatments is needed.

A 2-year, open-label followup was performed on 130 obsessive-compulsive patients who were responders to a previous 6-month treatment with clomipramine, fluoxetine, or fluvoxamine and maintenance treatments were found significantly superior to discontinuation in preventing relapses.