abstract aim and background: sulloway suggested that birth-order has a significant effect on personality traits, proposing first-borns children are more perfectionistic and more neurotic than later-borns. in abnormal form, perfectionism is closely associated with eating disorders and obsessive compulsive. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of birth-order on perfectionism, p...

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 ...

objective: the aim of the current study was to investigate the role of fusion beliefs and metacognitions in obsessive–compulsive symptoms in the general population. methods: a sample of 200 students of kharazmi university was selected from various faculties and completed the following questionnaires: metacognitions questionnaire-30 (mcq-30), thought-fusion instrument (tfi) and maudsley obsessiv...

OBJECTIVE Patients with schizophrenia often experience comorbid obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Within these patients, a significant subgroup developed secondary obsessive-compulsive symptoms during treatment with clozapine. METHOD In this paper, we report on four cases in which adjunctive therapy with aripiprazole was tested to alleviate obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia. RESUL...

The role of cerebellar pathology in psychiatric symptoms has long been recognized. Cerebellar pathology has been associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder pathophysiology, particularly with compulsive hoarding. Likewise, some cerebellum abnormalities have been described in schizophrenia, as well as in comorbidity between obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia. The authors report th...

OBJECTIVE Pathological gambling is proposed as a participant of an impulsive-compulsive spectrum related to obsessive-compulsive disorder. This study aims to contrast pathological gambling and obsessive-compulsive disorder regarding course, comorbidity, and personality, hence testing the validity of the impulsive-compulsive spectrum. METHOD 40 pathological gambling and 40 obsessive-compulsive...

Obsessive compulsive disorder and bipolar affective disorder in the pediatric population show a bidirectional overlap. Few studies that have addressed this issue show that the prevalence of obsessive compulsive disorder in bipolar affective disorder patients ranges from 0 to 54%, and 1.85 to 36% of the obsessive compulsive disorder patients have a comorbid bipolar affective disorder. We report ...

OBJECTIVE The primary objective of this study was to examine neurological soft signs in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder compared with patients with schizophrenia and a control group in the Indian setting. The secondary objective was to find any correlation between age at onset and neurological soft signs scores, as well as that between severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder sympt...

BACKGROUND Several psychological sequelae have been identified in civilian war survivors. However, little is known about the prevalence of obsessive-compulsive symptoms and their relationship to trauma in this population. METHOD Fifty-one adult civilian survivors of the Kosovo War (28 males) who had immigrated to Switzerland completed the Revised Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory Scale, the Post...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the prevalence and phenomenology of body dysmorphic disorder in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. METHOD The authors studied 442 patients who participated in the DSM-IV field trial for obsessive-compulsive disorder. RESULTS Twelve percent (N = 51) of the patients had a lifetime comorbid diagnosis of body dysmorphic disorder. Patients with and wit...