Tag: obsessive-compulsive disorder

Study suggests people with OCD process emotions differently

From the Elsevier press release: A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging reports that people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) feel more distress when viewing images to provoke OCD-related emotions… Read more »

Study suggests basing everyday decisions on risk of pain or loss linked to increased anxiety

From the eLife press release: Scientists have shone new light on how the human brain uses past experiences and generalizes them to future events, helping us safely navigate the world… Read more »

Study suggests understanding fear of guilt key in better treating OCD

From the University of Waterloo press release: Advances in our understanding of the development and persistence of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) have the potential to improve treatment according to a new… Read more »

Study shows how brain learns to reproduce patterns of brain activity that lead to reward

From the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University press release: In a scientific first, researchers have observed in mice how the brain learns to repeat patterns of neural activity that elicit… Read more »

Study examines fear of losing control and its role in anxiety disorders

From the Concordia University press release: Did you lock the front door? Did you double-check? Are you sure? If this sounds familiar, perhaps you can relate to people with obsessive-compulsive… Read more »

Study suggests that, for people with OCD, actions are at odds with beliefs

From the Cell Press press release: The repeated behaviors that characterize obsessive-compulsive disorder are a manifestation of an underlying brain dysfunction that is not yet well understood. Now, in a… Read more »

Region in brain found to be associated with fear of uncertain future

From the American Psychological Association press release: People who struggle to cope with uncertainty or the ambiguity of potential future threats may have an unusually large striatum, an area of the… Read more »