You likely know what OCD stands for, but many people don't know what having obsessive-compulsive disorder actually means. For therapists like Erin Venker, she often feels like OCD is misunderstood.

Although obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can involve high anxiety levels, doctors no longer classify it as an anxiety disorder. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a highly misunderstood ...

A study co-authored by a Brown University computational cognitive neuroscientist showed how an SSRI improves cognitive ...

Roughly 163 million people experience obsessive-compulsive disorder and its associated cycles of obsessions and compulsions. They have unwanted intrusive thoughts, images or urges; they also do ...

Obsessive compulsive disorder has many unknowns, including what causes it, why symptoms can differ so much between people, ...

Nearly 1 in 5 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) had comorbid obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) in a new study, which was linked to a longer delay in treatment initiation ...

Around 2% of the population struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD. That's roughly 163 million people who go through cycles of obsessions – unwanted intrusive thoughts, images or urges – ...