At the time of this study, studies on therapy and medication were not conducted to assess their effectiveness for children with OCD under the age of seven. However, children as… Read more »
Error-related negativity in unaffected siblings of youth with obsessive compulsive disorder
Research has shown that OCD involves increased brain activity in cortico-striatal circuits that connect the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) with other brain regions involved in performance monitoring and error detection…. Read more »
Anterior cingulate deficits in obsessive compulsive disorder
Prior research showed that abnormalities in the anterior cingulate (a brain region involved in error detection, attention, reward, and decision making) are linked to OCD, with brain imaging studies showing… Read more »
Neuro-executive predictors of cognitive behavioral treatment response in youth with obsessive compulsive disorder
Although therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) are effective in treating symptoms of pediatric OCD, not all children with OCD respond to it. Are there certain factors that could… Read more »
Internet-delivered EX/RP for early-onset OCD: A pilot feasibility trial
Research at the time of this study showed that onset of OCD before the age of nine has been associated with worse outcomes later in life. Despite the existence of… Read more »
Stress reactivity as a mechanism of treatment response in pediatric OCD
Although much research at the time focused on factors that aid the efficacy of exposure and response prevention (ERP) in adults with OCD, more insight into how these factors worked… Read more »
Cognitive biases in OCD: Mechanisms of generational transmission
At the time of this study, there had been no research investigating the risk factors that predict the attention and interpretations behind cognitive biases in children at risk of developing… Read more »
Stepped care CBT for pediatric OCD
One model of approaching and carrying out therapy is the stepped-care model —a personalized approach in which cost and intensity of an intervention are based on the individual needs of… Read more »
Extinction as a facilitator of cognitive bias modification in pediatric OCD
While therapies such as exposure and response prevention (ERP) can effectively treat OCD in children, not all children see a decrease in symptoms. From a cognitive perspective, OCD is associated… Read more »
MRS glutamate-stratified treatment of pediatric OCD
Although cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for pediatric OCD, not all patients respond to it equally — with some seeing little to no decrease in symptoms. This… Read more »