Objective: Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is chronic psychiatric disorder with high rate of relapse during the course of illness. It is not well known which factors contribute for the chronicity of the illness, mainly because there are confounding factors as the medication effect. In this study we compared the difference of neurocognitive functions of the first-episode, medication-naive OC...

Worry is the central characteristic of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and obsessions are a central feature of Obsessive±Compulsive Disorder (OCD). There are strong similarities between these disorders: repetitive cognitive intrusions, negative emotions, diculty dismissing the intrusion and ®nally, loss of mental control. Direct comparisons between obsessions and worries are almost nonexist...

Introduction Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a clinical syndrome whose hallmarks are excessive, anxiety-evoking thoughts and compulsive behaviours that generally recognized as unreasonable, but which cause significant distress impairment. OCD may also occur in the context of other neuropsychiatric disorders, most commonly anxiety mood disorders. The question remains to whether these comb...

The aim of this study was to investigate specificity of belief domains in obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) symptom subtypes (rumination, impulse phobia, washing, checking, precision and non-specific). One hundred and twenty-six OCD participants completed the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire (OBQ-44) and the Padua Inventory prior to treatment. Analyses of covariance revealed that the participa...

OBJECTIVE Anorexia nervosa is associated with high mortality, morbidity, and treatment costs. Olanzapine, an atypical antipsychotic, is known to result in weight gain in other patient populations. The objective of this trial was to assess the efficacy of olanzapine in promoting weight gain and in reducing obsessive symptoms among adult women with anorexia nervosa. METHOD The study was a doubl...

Scrupulosity involves obsessive religious doubts and fears, unwanted blasphemous thoughts and images, as well as compulsive religious rituals, reassurance seeking, and avoidance. This article provides a comprehensive review of the nature of scrupulosity, including (a) a detailed clinical description, (b) information about how to differentiate scrupulosity from normal religious practice, (c) cro...

The Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-44 (OBQ-44), a self-report measure, was developed by the Obsessive Compulsive Cognitions Working Group (OCCWG) to assess beliefs considered relevant in the etiology and maintenance of obsessions and compulsions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Persian language version of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire (POBQ-44...