objective: recent studies on treating obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd) have investigated noninvasive brain stimulation techniques such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tdcs) to improve patients’ impaired emotion and cognition. however, such experiments have yielded mixed results, especially with respect to cognition. this study aimed to investigate whether anodal and cathodal tdcs...

background and aim: one of the common problems in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder and substance abuse is emotion regulation difficult. the aim of this study was to compare emotion regulation strategies in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse and normal people. materials and methods: this study was conducted with historical cohort method. 40 patients with ocd, 40 ...

Introduction Worldwide epidemiological studies estimate that around 1% of the world population suffers from schizophrenia and 2 to 3% compulsive-obsessive disorder (OCD). Moreover, a significant percentage patients present an OCD comorbidity. These statistics testify close relationship between two pathologies, which sometimes causes difficulties in differentiating diagnoses, complicated by fact...

The aim of this present study is to examine the efficacy of attribution retraining group therapy (ARGT) and to compare the responses of outpatients with major depression disorder (MDD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We carried out a prospective uncontrolled intervention study with a 8-weeks of ARGT on sixty three outpatients with MDD, GAD or OCD. Ha...

objectives: tourette syndrome is a disease with vocal and motor tics. this disorder is co-morbid with many psychiatric disorders, among which obsessive-compulsive disorder is the most common. methods: during a one-year period, 30 patients with tourette disorder were studied at an adolescent psychiatry referral clinic. it was an analytical-descriptive study. subjects were selected by convenience...

The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) is widely acknowledged as the gold standard measure of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptom severity. Despite its popularity, a number of questions remain regarding the Y-BOCS' psychometric properties including: (a) whether obsessional and compulsive symptoms contribute independently to global OCD severity and (b) whether the Y-BOCS subs...

Background: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is one of the common psychiatric disorders among children and adolescents that can be created by both genetic environmental factors. Objective: The present study aimed to evaluate frequency OCD its patterns in families with children. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 95 who were referred Psychology Clinic Rafsanjan, Iran, 2016 enrolled a con...

The current article represents the further validation of the construct of inferential confusion amongst clinical samples. Inferential confusion is proposed to be a meta-cognitive confusion particularly relevant to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) that leads a person to confuse an imagined possibility with an actual probability. As such, it conceptualizes OCD as a form of belief disorder simi...