There is concern surrounding the classification of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) for the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The DSM-V workgroup for OCD related disorders and researchers alike suggest removing OCD from the anxiety disorders category of the DSM, and placing it under the heading of obsessive compulsive related disorders (OCRD). T...

Our aim was to present a comprehensive, updated survey on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and obsessive-compulsive related disorders (OCRDs) and their clinical management via literature review, critical analysis and synthesis. Information on OCD and OCRD current nosography, clinical phenomenology and etiology, may lead to a better comprehension of their management. Clinicians should become ...

Compulsive hoarding is a common and often disabling neuropsychiatric disorder. This article reviews the phenomenology, etiology, neurobiology, and treatment of compulsive hoarding. Compulsive hoarding is part of a discrete clinical syndrome that includes difficulty discarding, urges to save, clutter, excessive acquisition, indecisiveness, perfectionism, procrastination, disorganization, and avo...

OBJECTIVE Problems with inhibiting certain pathological behaviors are integral to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), trichotillomania, and other putative obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders. The authors assessed and compared motor inhibition and cognitive flexibility in OCD and trichotillomania for the first time, to their knowledge. METHOD The Stop-Signal Task and the Intradimensiona/E...

OBJECTIVE The principal aims of this study were to examine the prevalence rate, clinical characteristics, and related factors of postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). METHOD The subjects were a nonclinical sample of 400 postpartum women. They were interviewed from the 2nd up to the 26th week after birth. The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview was used for diagnosis of OCD...

objective: recent studies have emphasized the important role of cognitive beliefs in etiology and ‎maintenance of obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd). ocd has different subtypes, but the ‎specific role of cognitive beliefs in ocd symptomatology is not clear. the aim of the current ‎study was to determine whether the cognitive factors proposed by obsessive compulsive ‎cognitions working group (o...

The current study aimed to investigate the relationship of family environment and parental bonding with controlling compulsions (cc) obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). also predictive value for OCD. Sample consisted 130 diagnosed patients OCD (65 males & 65 females) within age range 20-50 years. Three measures were used gather data - Family Environment Scale (FES), Parental Bonding Instru...

Scrupulosity (also known as religious obsessive-compulsive disorder) is a sub-group of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that has not been well investigated internationally and in Iran. In recent decades, scrupulosity has been the researchers’ subject of interest and relevant literature, mostly with a cognitive approach, has attracted attention. In this regard, investigators have tried to she...