Dr. Michael Alcée encourages a more compassionate approach to OCD, one that honors creativity, emotional depth, and ...

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 ...

Although obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) can be treated, research has shown that people with the disorder tend to have a lower quality of life than neurotypical people. Many struggle to achieve ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder affecting one percent of the U.S. population, but the underlying causes of OCD remain relatively unknown. However, recent research has ...

“‘Just right’ OCD” is a nonclinical way to describe an urge to ensure things are symmetrical or “just right” that can occur in OCD. This condition can be treated with therapy or by addressing ...

Religious OCD, or scrupulosity, is a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) where a person experiences obsessions and compulsions that fixate on religion or morality. Treatment can involve ...