Obsessive-compulsive disorder, commonly referred to as OCD, is a chronic condition characterised by recurrent persistent thoughts which usually co-occur with repetitive compulsive behaviour.

Although obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) can be treated, research has shown that people with the disorder tend to have a lower quality of life than neurotypical people. Many struggle to achieve ...

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 ...

Hadas Lederer began sharing her OCD journey on TikTok after years of struggling with intrusive thoughts in silence ...

You likely know what OCD stands for, but many people don't know what having obsessive-compulsive disorder actually means. For therapists like Erin Venker, she often feels like OCD is misunderstood.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder. It causes a person to have intrusive, distressing thoughts, which they manage using compulsive behaviors. For example, a person, who fixates ...

Graeme Currie was just a teenager when he started suffering intrusive thoughts of harm and violence caused by a harrowing ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Lieber Institute for Brain Development have identified ...

Hadas Lederer shares her story on TikTok to help others understand OCD beyond common misconceptions ...

If you've ever said, “I'm so OCD about that” — maybe when noting that you prefer your bedroom to be clean or get bothered when you see a crooked picture frame — I hate to break it to you, but you ...

It’s a chilly winter’s night in central London in 2022. Below a canopy of trees, men move plastic pieces around plastic ...