Compulsions are repetitive, stereotyped thoughts and behaviors designed to reduce harm. Growing evidence suggests that the neurocognitive mechanisms mediating behavioral inhibition (motor inhibition, cognitive inflexibility) reversal learning and habit formation (shift from goal-directed to habitual responding) contribute toward compulsive activity in a broad range of disorders. In obsessive co...

BACKGROUND Previous reports have described an association between autoimmunity and primary obsessive compulsive disorder. This study aimed to investigate any differences in the levels of T helper 1, 2, and 17 effector cell cytokines between obsessive compulsive disorder patients and the control group. METHODS The study included 34 children (23 males, 11 females), aged between 7 and 17 years, ...

The current research aims to determine the structural relationships between levels of perfectionism and symptoms obsessive-compulsive disorder with mediation cognitive styles. statistical population present study consisted University Tabriz students; 360 were selected using a combination purposeful convenience sampling, they completed online Maudsley Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (MOCI), Posit...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is one of the most disabling mental disorders in world and there are different interventions treatment strategy for obsessive compulsive disorder. A recent technique that has been gaining ground within positive psychology Mindfulness, this shown promising results being used as a new resource adherence to OCD symptoms. The aim study was perform systematic review lit...

OBJECTIVE Neuroimaging studies have shown abnormalities of the frontal cortex and basal ganglia in persons with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Since lesions in the frontal cortex and basal ganglia areas affect performance on goal-guided saccadic eye movements, this study investigated the relation between the diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder and oculomotor performance. METHOD Eleven ...

AIM To assess clinical and demographic characteristics of Turkish children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder. METHOD The study comprised 47 children and adolescents (31 boys and 15 girls) aged between 9 and 15 years, who were diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV. At the first interview, sociodemogra...

obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by the presence of recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges or images as well as repetitive behaviors or mental acts. according to the existing evidence, it can be predicted that difficulties in emotion regulation, impulsivity and anger are related to obsessive-compulsive disorder in one way or another. the aim of the present study was to predict o...

obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by the presence of recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images as well as repetitive behaviors or mental acts.  according to the existing evidence, it can be predicted that difficulties in emotion regulation, impulsivity, and anger are related to obsessive-compulsive disorder in one way or another. the aim of the present study was to predic...

OBJECTIVE The primary objective of this study was to examine neurological soft signs in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder compared with patients with schizophrenia and a control group in the Indian setting. The secondary objective was to find any correlation between age at onset and neurological soft signs scores, as well as that between severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder sympt...