Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

The International OCD Foundation has designated this week as International OCD Awareness Week.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness has designated this week as Mental Illness Awareness Week.

The FDA granted clearance for a transcranial magnetic stimulation device for adjunct treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder, according to an industry press release.

Women appeared to have a greater lifetime risk for obsessive-compulsive disorder than men, according to results of a meta-analysis published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Children with pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome, or PANS, exhibited cerebral microstructural differences in multiple brain structures, according to results of a case-control study published in JAMA Network Open.

Researchers have gained new insight into the cognitive and computational process underlying obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Specifically, patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder may distrust their past experience, resulting in increased indecisiveness, uncertainty and exploratory behaviors, according to study findings published in PLoS Computational Biology.

Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder generally do not benefit from mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, or MBCT, according to study results published in Psychiatry Research.

Researchers have identified eight psychiatric disorders that share a common genetic structure, according to study results published in Cell.

Cognitive behavioral therapy may improve outcomes for anxiety-related disorders compared with control conditions up to 1 year after treatment completion, according to results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry. Beyond 1 year, effects vary by specific disorder, researchers noted.

Findings published in Psychiatry Research revealed significant overlap between self-reported PTSD and obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms.