While working at the NIH, she wrote “The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing,” a groundbreaking study of OCD. She also researched ...

People with OCD tend to give themselves a hard time. When they're stuck on an obsession, they reach a critical choice point, Jerud says: They can either give in to their urges to try to reduce their ...

People with relationship OCD, on the other hand—or R-OCD, a lesser-known subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder—can’t.

OCD, which affects 2% to 3% of Americans, is characterized by recurring thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors such as excessive hand washing and arranging objects in a precise way ...

Acetylcholine "conductors" in the striatum directly trigger serotonin release, offering new insights into the origins of OCD and chemical imbalances.

A scoping review of seven studies plus one abstract identified menopause-associated OCD onset in 5% of women reporting onset and symptom worsening in 27% of those reporting change. Reproductive ...

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) may have an increased risk of death from both natural and unnatural causes than those without the disorder, finds a study from Sweden published in The ...

An article that recently appeared in the New York Post attempted to link OCD with violent political extremism, citing climate activist Greta Thunberg’s OCD as part reason for her activism. “Thunberg ...

Leonardo DiCaprio has quietly struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder for years, revealing compulsive behaviors like ...