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Several lines of investigation suggest that obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD) may be associated with serotonergic dysfunction. Researchers have also suggested that serotonin plays an important role in the migraine headache process. However, there are few published reports examining the relation between clinical OCD and migraine headache. Researchers have suggested that the migraine headache sy...

Introduction: Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a clinical syndrome, characterized by disturbing and intrusive thoughts, images, or impulses repetitive behaviors. Aim: This study aimed to present structural model for predicting the symptoms of obsessivecompulsive based on religious adherence commitment evaluate mediating role personality function. Method: was descriptive correlational performed ...

Advances in our understanding of the genetic and neural substrates of obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD) and related spectrum disorders such as trichotillomania, as well as their characteristic behavioral and cognitive symptoms, render the search and evaluation of appropriate animal models especially timely. Such modeling in neurology and neuropsychiatry generally occurs on at least two levels:...

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The emergence or exacerbation of obsessive– compulsive (OC) symptoms during treatment with atypical antipsychotics, mostly clozapine, has been documented by numerous case reports (reviewed by Lykouras et al., 2003). In six recent reports involving nine cases, (Jonkers and deHaan, 2002; Lykouras et al., 2003) olanzapine was found either to cause de novo emergence or to exacerbate OC symptoms. In...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a common chronic neuropsychiatric illness. Estimates of the lifetime prevalence rate of obsessive-compulsive disorder will vary depending on the methods used to gather the epidemiological data and the diagnostic criteria used to define obsessive-compulsive disorder. Estimates of the lifetime prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder have been reported to be to...

Kristen Porter Ian Hales Capstone ATLS 4010 March 11, 2015 DSM-V Revisions and The Interpretation of Measurable Traits Versus The Diagnoses of Personality Disorders Personality disorders are commonly defined as patterns of cognition, affectivity, interpersonal behavior, and impulse control that culturally deviate from the norm, that are pervasive, inflexible, and substantially hinder the daily ...

The last decade has seen a noticeable increase in the number of treatment outcome studies for pediatric obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD). The present article describes a meta-analysis of this literature with the aim of quantifying treatment effects and examining the extent to which various patient or treatment variables are related to outcome. Results showed that pharmacotherapy with serotone...