A recent Cambridge University-led study found evidence that a new app that lets patients watch a video of themselves washing their hands or touching a dirty object could be key to improving obsessive ...

In recent years, public awareness of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) has increased dramatically. As a result, when we think of OCD, we tend to think of germaphobes who can’t touch doorknobs or ...

Carey Wilson receives funding from the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. Thibault Renoir receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a stigmatized and little-understood mental health condition. People with OCD are often reduced by popular culture to neurotic caricatures, repeatedly seen washing ...

Program has OCD sufferers kick tires, jump in Dumpsters, touch toilet seats. Feb. 15, 2010 — -- Away from home for a conference, Faye Lange takes a minute before heading out for what she calls ...

While obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, is an actual mental health condition, the term has been co-opted by the public to describe times when someone is having an anal-retentive moment. But ...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition characterized by recurring obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. If you or someone you know is experiencing these symptoms, it ...

Symptoms of Pure O. Obsessive-compulsive disorder itself involves having reoccurring obsessions and behaviors (compulsions).