Glutamatergic medications showed promise in treating obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs), especially obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a systematic review and meta-analysis showed.

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 ...

Ten to 40 percent of patients with anorexia nervosa are diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Likewise, 11 percent of patients with a primary diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder have a ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, researchers investigated the effectiveness of deep brain stimulation (DBS) against treatment-resistant ...

Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. The obsessive-compulsive and related disorders chapter in the DSM-5 adds four items including substance/medication-induced obsessive-compulsive and related ...

A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric ...

The findings one day could allow people with multiple mental health conditions to be treated with a single therapy, ...