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 ...

Historically, obsessions and compulsions have been mentioned in the religious and nonscientific literature for centuries. Obsessivecompulsive features are not only present in individuals, but constitute an important part of collective rituals and ceremonies including magic and superstition (Meyer, 1968). The purpose of this paper will be focused on the medical aspects of obsessions and compulsi...

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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...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: ADU: Anxiety Disorder Unspecified; NHANES: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; BMI: Body Mass Index; NESARC: National Epidemiologic Study of Alcohol and Related Conditions; HPA: Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal; CRH: Corticotrophin Releasing Hormone; AVP: Arginine Vasopressin; ACTH: Adrenocorticotropic Hormone; GAD: Genera...

The current study quantitatively examined the relation between cognitive inflexibility and obsessive-compulsive personality traits and also examined whether depression and anxiety were mediators of that relation. A total of 56 individuals, ages 18 to 40, participated in the study and were recruited from the undergraduate and graduate student body of The University of Southern Mississippi as wel...

Despite being a core characteristic of anxiety disorders, little data have been reported on somatic symptoms (SSs) in youth with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Eighty-five children and adolescents with OCD were administered the Children’s Yale Brown ObsessiveCompulsive Scale and completed the Children’s Depression Inventory and Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children. Their parents co...

TO THE EDITOR: We appreciate the interest and comments on our paper, which was published in the July 2012 issue of this Journal. The close correlation between gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) symptoms and psychological factors is well known, but this is the first study to show the relationship between typical GERD symptoms and psychological factors in patients with erosive esophagitis. Yo...

Editors: Despite the continued DSM-IV classification of trichotillomania as an impulse control disorder, its nosologic status remains controversial. Like obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD), serotonin selective reuptake inhibiting antidepressants (SSRIs) have shown some efficacy in treating trichotillomania, [1-3] but the self-injurious nature of the core behavior and the pleasure that patients ...