(At the time of this study, hoarding disorder (HD) not a separate diagnosis from OCD.) What are the genetic and environmental causes behind compulsive hoarding, and how does compulsive hoarding… 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 »
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 »
Whole exome sequencing in OCD patients
Research into twins and families demonstrated that OCD is highly heritable, and that OCD is linked to malfunctioning synapses (gaps between neurons through which information and neurotransmitters flow) in the… Read more »
African-Americans with OCD: Reducing barriers to diagnosis and treatment
Although African Americans experience OCD at similar rates as the general population, they are less likely to receive treatments such as exposure and response prevention (ERP) and medications. At the… 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 »
Affective responses and information processing in compulsive hoarding: A psychophysiological investigation
At the time of this study, hoarding disorder (HD) was expected to become a diagnosis separate from OCD in the DSM-5. Despite growing evidence that HD is a distinct disorder,… Read more »
Neural correlates of emotional response inhibition in obsessive compulsive disorder
Prior studies showed that problems in controlling inhibitions related to intrusive thoughts are tied to OCD. Brain imaging techniques were used to look at inhibitory control processes and the processing… Read more »
Attentional processes in scrupulous OCD
Scrupulosity is a subtype of OCD that is defined by a prevalence of moral and religious obsessions and compulsions. Scrupulosity affects 1 in 20 of Western OCD sufferers; in some… Read more »
The frequency of oscillations in obsessive compulsive disorder
With the rise of imaging methods and measurements that could look into how brain regions interact in patients with OCD, more research was needed into their strengths and limitations. This… Read more »