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Remembering Dr. Michael Jenike
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Research Grant Program
<< Back to Research Home The IOCDF awards annual grants to research scientists seeking to advance scientific understanding of OCD and related disorders, improve existing therapies, and discover new… Read more »
IOCDF Advocate and Grassroots Programs
IOCDF Advocate: A structured, two-year commitment for deeper involvement and leadership in advocacy efforts.Both programs aim to empower individuals to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and support the OCD community! IOCDF Grassroots… Read more »
Journey Through the Maze: A Personal Account of Living with OCD
By Sina Tadayon It’s truly challenging to explain to people who don’t have OCD what the condition really entails. They often assume it’s merely a collection of quirks that make… Read more »
Why I Walk
The back story to the OCD Walk… In 2012, Denis Asselin walked over 500 miles — or roughly one million steps — from his home in Cheyney, PA, to Boston,… Read more »
Visual information processing in body dysmorphic disorder
Prior research has suggested that people with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) differ in their processing of what they see. As BDD is a disorder that is partly defined by high… Read more »
Functional neuroanatomy of body dysmorphic disorder
Neuroimaging research to understand how the brains of people with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) functioned was limited at the time of this study. This study by Dr. Saxena and his… Read more »
Visual attention bias in body dysmorphic disorder
Cognitive behavioral models of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) highlighted information processing biases — cognitive biases that relate to how various forms of information such as visual information are interpreted. Research… Read more »
Effect of intranasal oxytocin on social cognition in body dysmorphic disorder
Oxytocin is a hormone that is associated with emotion recognition and social attentional processing. Given the difficulties in emotion regulation and social approach behavior present in people with body dysmorphic… Read more »
A virtual reality study of cognitive biases in body dysmorphic disorder
Previous research has found that people with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) often assign negative interpretations to neutral or benign social interactions, and may believe that others are judging them or… Read more »