People with hoarding disorder (HD) experience strong emotional attachment to their possessions, and extreme difficulty and distress when throwing things away. This can lead to excessive collecting of possessions, with… Read more »
Understanding and treating OCD in older adults
With the population aging globally, the number of older adults with OCD is expected to double within the next 30 years. We currently lack important information about the best possible… Read more »
Using a machine learning approach to identify immune biomarkers associated with PANS/PANDAS
Despite recent research into Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcus (PANDAS) and Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS), clinicians and researchers often struggle to differentiate childhood OCD and PANDAS/PANS. These… Read more »
A precision medicine approach to OCD treatment: Targeting neuroinflammation
Much prior research has found evidence of brain inflammation’s role in the development of OCD. As a result, anti-inflammatory medications have been suggested as a potential avenue for treating symptoms… Read more »
Identifying targets for prevention and early intervention in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Research has found that the risk for developing OCD is not only due to the genes we inherit from our parents, but also from environmental factors. However, it is unclear… Read more »