Taking psilocybin – the psychedelic component of magic mushrooms – eased symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder among ...

People with relationship OCD, on the other hand—or R-OCD, a lesser-known subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder—can’t.

According to a recent study, a single dose of psilocybin can quickly reduce obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms. Additionally, the study's ...

A social worker living with OCD explains how the condition shapes his practice and helps him connect with young people ...

Contamination OCD is a variation of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder OCD, which extends well beyond likability to keeping things clean. Although most people like clean environments, patients who have ...

I woke up shaking after four hours of the most terrible sleep of my life. My legs were sweaty against the newly washed sheets; my heart pounded hard enough that my thoughts folded into each other; I ...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) Appeal Board has ruled that advertisements by SS Commercial Cleaning Group Limited — trading as OCD Commercial Cleaning — were likely to cause harm or serious ...

A peer-reviewed study published in Comprehensive Psychiatry found that a single 10-milligram oral dose of psilocybin significantly reduced obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms in 19 adults, with ...

A specific pattern of brain activity in a frontal brain region is linked to compulsive behaviors like excessive hand washing, chronic hair-pulling, and skin-picking in people with obsessive compulsive ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet are joining an ambitious international collaboration aimed at transforming the early identification and ...

OCD is not merely a quirk or a preference for orderliness; it is a clinical disorder rooted in the brain's circuitry, particularly involving areas responsible for habit formation and fear response ...

Zack Tucker can remember exactly when it started. He was in his first serious relationship and had climbed a mountain in the ...