Little is known about the symptom profile of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in individuals who have autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It is also unknown whether self-report questionnaires are useful in measuring OCD in ASD. We sought to describe the symptom profiles of adults with ASD, OCD, and ASD + OCD using the Obsessive Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R), and to assess the utility of ...

BACKGROUND Cross-sectional studies have associated poor insight in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with increased OCD symptom severity, earlier age of onset, comorbid depression, and treatment response. The goal of this current study was to examine the relationship between dimensions of OCD symptomatology and insight in a large clinical cohort of Brazilian patients with OCD. W...

BACKGROUND Quality of life (QoL) is a well-established outcome measure. However, in contrast to adult obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), little is known about QoL in children with OCD. This study aimed to assess QoL, social competence and school functioning of paediatric patients with OCD by comparing them with the general population and assessing the relations between comorbidity, duration a...

Dogs naturally suffer the same complex diseases as humans, including mental illness. The dog is uniquely suited as a model organism to explore the genetics of neuropsychiatric disorders. Historical breed demographics have enriched purebred populations for founder effect mutations with tractable architectures, making genotypic analyses advantageous. Over a pet’s lifetime, owners observe the anim...

BACKGROUND Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) share inhibitory control deficits possibly underlying poor control over stereotyped and repetitive and compulsive behaviors, respectively. However, it is unclear whether these symptom profiles are mediated by common or distinct neural profiles. This comparative multimodal meta-analysis assessed shared and disorder...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic triggers anxiety and worry in society. Active cases have continued to grow since the government announced first patient of Indonesia. In midst pandemic, adolescent is a dominant groups society infected with COVID-19. This situation can affect psychological condition adolescents. study aims analyze relationship between history symptoms Obsessive Compulsive Disor...

background drug addiction, obsessive compulsive disorders (ocd), and other anxiety disorders are the disorders most commonly found in patients with bipolar disorder. objectives the purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting the risk of drug addiction, obsessive compulsive disorders, and other anxiety disorders in patients with bipolar disorder. patients and methods in this retr...

Converging evidence suggests that hyperactivity in frontal-striatal circuits and in action-monitoring processes characterizes obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It remains unclear, however, just how these abnormalities in brain function translate into the cognitive, affective, and behavioral manifestations of OCD. One possibility is that exaggerated or false error signals generated by the ant...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenic patients with and without obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). METHODS We grouped 27 patients as either obsessive-compulsive or non-obsessive-compulsive based on the presence of OCD. The two groups completed the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), Positive and Negative Symptom Scale (PANSS), and Hamilton Depres...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD is a chronic disorder that waxes and wanes over time. Symptoms may intensify spontaneously without any reason and at times it can become a very disabling illness. Onset is usually in childhood, as early as ten years of age. However it often does not come to diagnosis because people with OCD hide their symptoms from their families due to shame or guilt. This ...