CONTEXT The rising rate of overweight and obese individuals among developing countries despite focused efforts on prevention and treatment underscores not only the need to better define the physiological factors that contribute to weight problems, but also the need to elucidate the neurobiological mechanisms of the self-regulatory failure over eating that leads to weight problems. Emergent find...

objective: the present study was carried out to examine the efficacy of psychoneurotherapy (pnt) on reducing symptoms severity in treatment-naïve patients with obsessive-compulsive washing. this study evaluated a new form of psychotherapy based on neurobiological model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd).  methods: the study was conducted as a quasi-experimental research. the statistical pop...

Patients 74 patients who had DSM-IV confirmed BDD with or without a delusional disorder for ≥ 6 months, were 18–65 years of age, scored ≥ 24 on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale Modified for Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD-YBOCS), and scored at least moderate on the Clinical Global Impression scale for BDD (BDD-CGI). Exclusion criteria included psychotic disorder not attributable to delus...

Background and Objectives: Exercise addiction (EA) may happen when an individual fails to perform exercise moderately causing turn into a compulsive behavior. Although there are growing evidence suggested that EA be comorbid with other issue such as body image dissatisfaction (BID) eating disorders (ED), however limited studies targeted on the Malaysian undergraduate population. Hence, present ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to explore current and lifetime prevalence of obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD) in eating disorder (ED) subgroups and subtypes defined by the DSM-IV and to study the chronology of appearance of these disorders taking into account the role played by denutrition. METHOD Current and lifetime prevalence were investigated using the Mini International Neuropsyc...

Obsessive compulsive symptoms have been reported to occur in high proportion in schizophrenia. Presence of obsessive compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia has poor prognostic significance. Because of the antiobsessional effect of the fluoxetine, present study was undertaken as preliminary investigation in cases of schizophrenia with obsessive compulsive symptoms. We conducted an open trial of 12...

BACKGROUND Obsessive-compulsive disorder typically begins early in life and has a chronic course. Despite the need for long-term treatment, the information about therapeutic effect on different clinical subtypes is limited. METHODS Consecutive outpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder were evaluated for response to a two-month fluoxetine therapy course by Yale-Brown obsessive-compulsive ...