Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

A community portal about Obsessive-compulsive disorder with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a psychiatric disorder; more specifically, it is an anxiety disorder. OCD is manifested... [more]

A community portal about Obsessive-compulsive disorder with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a psychiatric disorder; more specifically, it is an anxiety disorder. OCD is manifested in a variety of forms, but it is most commonly characterized by a subject's obsessive, distressing, intrusive thoughts and related compulsions which attempt to neutralize the obsessions.

Background Specific cortico-striato-thalamic circuits are hypothesised to mediate the symptoms of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), but structural neuroimaging studies have been inconsistent. Aims To conduct a meta-analysis of published and unpublished voxel-based morphometry studies in OCD. Method Twelve data-sets comprising 401 people with OCD and 376 healthy controls met inclusion criteria. A new improved voxel-based meta...  
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