Investigators at the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University in China searched publication databases through March 2021 for studies of noninvasive brain stimulation treatments for OCD.
With the provision of outpatient psychotherapy by psychiatrists steadily declining in the US, researchers sought to characterize the trends and patterns of psychotherapy by US psychiatrists.
The study suggests that inflammation and serotonin dysfunction are responsible for the correlation.
Adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder have an increased risk for ischemic stroke.
Stepped care offering internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy followed by in-person CBT if necessary is noninferior to in-person CBT for children and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder.
Researchers evaluated 580 pregnant and postpartum women for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in British Columbia.
Evidence-based treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) such as exposure therapy and psychopharmacology are often unavailable to people with OCD. The researchers studied digital health approaches such as videoconferencing to improve access to OCD treatment and found 5 useful ways to incorporate the technology.
Estimates of obsessive-compulsive disorder may be underestimated in pregnant women and new mothers.
The researchers compared the perceived mental health impact and coping and changes in depressive symptoms, anxiety, worry, and loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic between people with and without lifetime depressive, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorders.
With little being known about the predictors or moderators of dTMS outcome for OCD, this study sought to examine if several theoretically relevant variables may predict and moderate treatment effects including OCD symptom severity, functional impairment, co-occurring depressive symptoms, age, gender, age of OCD onset, and family history of OCD.
