DEEP brain stimulation may improve quality of life in treatment-refractory OCD, but social and independence challenges often ...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) uses magnetic fields to stimulate specific areas of the brain. It’s shown promise in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), including cases that may not ...

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The gold standard therapy for OCD is exposure and response prevention (ERP) – a treatment designed to reduce avoidance and rituals as a means of coping with distressing triggers. This involves going ...

While obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) typically involves recurrent thoughts about a feared future event, real event OCD involves thoughts that a past event triggers. OCD is a condition where a ...

Every now and then the concept that OCD can be cured resurfaces somewhere in the media. As a person with lifelong OCD and as a therapist specializing in the treatment of the disorder, I’d like to ...