The number of 16-24 year olds in England reporting symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, has more than tripled in a decade, BBC analysis of NHS data has found. The condition is now the ...

For most people, the idea of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) may flow from common comedic representations, such as the eponymous detective in the hit show Monk, who feels obliged to touch every ...

In the aftermath of the October 7th attacks in Israel, a team of psychologists and psychiatrists noticed an unsettling pattern among survivors: obsessions and compulsions that hadn't been there before ...

Scientists have identified the first brainwave biomarkers for OCD, opening the door to personalized, on-demand brain stimulation that targets distressing compulsive behaviors as they arise.

A new genetic study of more than 50,000 obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) cases has linked around 250 genes to the condition, including more than two dozen identified as likely causal, in about 30 ...

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“It's hard to be honest about aging and seem cool,” the comedian, 66, said Wilson Webb/Netflix In her final Netflix special For Your Approval, Ellen DeGeneres opened up about multiple health ...

People often told Elona Washington, a publisher from the Nashville area, that she “acted like she had OCD.” She would panic if bobby pins in her hair faced different directions or would be so afraid ...

When my daughter was young, she washed her hands a lot. We might have poked what we thought was gentle fun at her, saying she was “a little bit OCD”. Later, she began to disclose “bad thoughts”, which ...

“When I’m really sick, I can’t read a menu let alone function in the world,” said ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ author Eric Charbonneau/Getty YouTube personality and bestselling YA author John Green is ...

For “Turtles All the Way Down” author John Green, life with obsessive compulsive disorder looks different from how it does on TV and in the movies. “The first thing for me is that there’s a reason ...