Treatment of obsessive-compulsive-bipolar comorbidity is relatively challenging. This case report presents the improvement of both obsessive-compulsive and mood symptoms in a female patient treated with risperidone plus valproate. Her obsessivecompulsive and manic symptoms, as assessed respectively by using The Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) and Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS), ...

Scrupulosity (also known as religious obsessive-compulsive disorder) is a sub-group of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that has not been well investigated internationally and in Iran. In recent decades, scrupulosity has been the researchers’ subject of interest and relevant literature, mostly with a cognitive approach, has attracted attention. In this regard, investigators have tried to she...

OBJECTIVE To compare quality of life in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder with that in healthy subjects and to relate quality of life to cognitive functions and the severity of clinical symptoms. METHODS Twenty-three patients who met DSM-IV criteria for obsessive compulsive disorder and 22 healthy subjects were included in the study. Quality of life (Turkish Quality of Life Scale-Br...

Background.A review of the efficacy of antidepressantdrug treatment in patients with obsessive—compulsive disorder(OCD), usinga meta-analyticapproach. Method. Randomiseddouble-blindclinicaltrialsof antidepressantdrugs,carriedout among patients with OCD and publishedin peer-reviewedjournalsbetween 1975 and May 1994, were selectedtogetherwith three studiescurrentlyin press.Forty-seventrialswere...

Psychiatric classificatory systems consider obsessions and compulsions as forms of anxiety disorder. However, the neurology of diseases associated with obsessive-compulsive symptoms suggests the involvement of fronto-striatal regions likely to be involved in the mediation of the emotion of disgust, suggesting that dysfunctions of disgust should be considered alongside anxiety in the pathogenesi...

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disabling and prevalent disorder with a variety of clinical presentations and obsessional themes. Recently, research has begun to investigate relationship-related obsessive–compulsive (OC) symptoms including relationship-centered and partner-focused OC symptoms. In this paper, we present relationship obsessive–compulsive disorder (ROCD), delineate its ma...

Literature on the association of methylphenidate and obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) is sparse. This report discusses a case of a 14-year-old boy, who developed OCS (in the form of need for symmetry, obsessive doubts; compulsive symptoms included the need to order/arrange articles and repeated checking behavior), within 10 days of starting methylphenidate at the dose of 15 mg/day. Stoppage ...

The relation between obsessive and/or compulsive symptoms and psychosis has been verified since the XIX century.1 At present, this relation presents in different ways. 2, 3 In the first place, individuals with psychosis who show obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS)4 and that can present at the onset of the disease (prodromes).5 In the second place, the OCS can occur within the context of a psych...

The present study was aimed to examine the relationship between parental report about their children’s obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms and thought fusion with the parent-child relationship structure among the adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The research method was correlational descriptive and the statistical population included all the adolescents affected by obsessive c...