Bipolar remission influenced by anxiety and OCD
Anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder may reduce the likelihood of achieving remission for patients with bipolar disorder, study findings indicate.
View ArticlePeople affected by disorders of compulsivity share common pattern of decision...
People affected by binge eating, substance abuse and obsessive compulsive disorder all share a common pattern of decision making and similarities in brain structure, according to new research from the...
View ArticleInvestigators report effects of internet based treatment on obsessive symptoms
A group of German investigators reports on the affects of internet based treatment on obsessive symptoms in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.
View ArticleResearchers determine safety and effectiveness of neurostimulation to treat...
Chronic pain, which persists despite the fact that an injury has healed, can last for many months or years and may affect up to 15 percent of the adult population at any point in time.
View ArticleNew drug naming system to be presented at ECNP conference in Berlin
What's in a name? Doctors have found that the name of the drug you are prescribed significantly influences how the patient sees the treatment.
View ArticleChildhood psychiatric disorders linked to schizophrenia risk
Having a childhood psychiatric disorder increases people’s likelihood of being later diagnosed with schizophrenia, research shows.
View ArticleResearch evidence supports use of deep brain stimulation for OCD patients
Available research evidence supports the use of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) who don't respond to other treatments, concludes a review in the...
View ArticleRogers Behavioral Health System opens treatment center in Tampa, Fla.
Rogers Behavioral Health System, Wisconsin's largest, not-for-profit mental health and addiction services provider, is opening its first treatment center outside of Wisconsin in Tampa, Fla., on Monday,...
View ArticleButler neuropsychologist studies OCD patients undergoing gamma knife...
Supported by a $750,000 K23 Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health, Butler Hospital neuropsychologist Nicole McLaughlin, PhD, is conducting a first-of-its-kind study of...
View ArticleNew therapy appears to help tinnitus patients cope better with phantom noise
Patients with tinnitus hear phantom noise and are sometimes so bothered by the perceived ringing in their ears, they have difficulty concentrating. A new therapy does not lessen perception of the noise...
View ArticleNew study finds link between conflict and reinforcement learning
We celebrate our triumphs over adversity, but let's face it: We'd rather not experience difficulty at all. A new study ties that behavioral inclination to learning: When researchers added a bit of...
View ArticlePathological guilt in preschool years linked to brain changes, increases risk...
In school-age children previously diagnosed with depression as preschoolers, a key brain region involved in emotion is smaller than in their peers who were not depressed, scientists have shown.
View ArticleGoing to bed late evenings linked to repetitive negative thoughts
When you go to bed, and how long you sleep at a time, might actually make it difficult for you to stop worrying. So say Jacob Nota and Meredith Coles of Binghamton University in the US, who found that...
View ArticleReport supports potential of focused ultrasound to treat certain OCD patients
A recently published report in the Journal of Molecular Psychiatry supports the potential of focused ultrasound to treat certain patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
View ArticleComorbid OCD not uncommon in bipolar disorder
Co-occurrence of obsessive compulsive disorder in patients with bipolar disorder type I is not uncommon and is associated with increased functional disability, research findings indicate.
View ArticleResearchers say that misfiring of the brain's control system may underpin...
Misfiring of the brain's control system might underpin compulsions in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to researchers at the University of Cambridge, writing in the American Journal of...
View ArticleResearchers identify a common pattern across different psychiatric disorders
In a study analyzing whole-brain images from nearly 16,000 people, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine identified a common pattern across a spectrum of psychiatric disorders that...
View ArticleDeclarative memory helps individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders...
Individuals with five neurodevelopmental disorders -- autism spectrum disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome, dyslexia, and Specific Language Impairment -- appear to compensate for...
View ArticleStudy finds similar brain anomalies in people with anorexia and body...
People with anorexia nervosa and with body dysmorphic disorder have similar abnormalities in their brains that affect their ability to process visual information, a new UCLA study reveals.
View ArticleAppetite-controlling neurons initiate repetitive behaviors seen in OCD,...
In the absence of food, neurons that normally control appetite initiate complex, repetitive behaviors seen in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and anorexia nervosa, according to a new study by Yale...
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