Severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): socio-demographic and clinical features

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Comparison of Socio-Demographic and Clinical Features of Bipolar Patients With And Without Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Amaç: Epidemiyolojik çalışmalar iki uçlu bozukluğu olan hastalarda obsesif kompülsif bozukluğun hayat boyu yaygınlığının %3.2 ile %35 arasında olduğunu göstermektedir. Bu arada iki uçlu bozukluğun obsesif kompülsif bozukluk ile birlikte olduğu (İUB-OKB) ve olmadığı (saf İUB) hastalarla yapılan ve hastaların demografik ve klinik özelliklerini değerlendiren birkaç çalışmanın yayınlanan sonuçları ...

Comparison of clinical features among youth with tic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and both conditions.

The comorbidity of tic disorders (TD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has long been recognized in the clinical literature and appears to be bidirectional, affecting 20-60% of individuals with each disorder. Coffey et al. (1998) found that adults with TD+OCD had a more severe comorbidity profile than adults with OCD or TD alone. This exploratory study in children attempts to evaluate whe...

Clinical features of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The past decade has seen tremendous strides in the knowledge about the cause, epidemiology, and treatment of OCD. Research on clinical characteristics of the disorder have focused on several areas, including identification of subtypes, the role of insight, and patterns of comorbidity. Several studies looking at course of illness in OCD have found that, for adults with this disorder, the course ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): is this disorder under-recognized?

Obsessive-Compulsive disorder is much more common than it was initially assumed. It can be a part of a major mental illness or can occur on its own. It was found that 1-year prevalence is in the range of 0.8-2.2 % in a study. 1 There are some interesting figures on this mental disorder: 2 1 in 200 young people at any time are suffering from OCD, boys are more likely to have an onset before pube...