OCD is defined in ICD-10 as obsessional thoughts and/or compulsive actions, of at least two weeks duration, with associated anxiety. The obsessional thoughts of OCD are often distressing and can be in the form of urges, ideas and images (ICD-10). These disturbing thoughts are recognised as the patient’s own regardless of their unpleasant nature. The patient will often try initially to resist th...

Although history of medicine is no longer devoted exclusively to great men and their research, they are still worth studying under certain circumstances, above all if they represent important scientific research strands and movements of their times. This is certainly true for the immunologist and bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), whose work had an impact on several areas within twentieth...

Excessive grooming in mice has been promoted as a model of human obsessive-compulsive disorders. A recent paper adds Grb10 to the list of genes with effects on behavioral hair loss, with the added twist that this time the gene is imprinted.

  Background   Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a heterogeneous condition with distinct subtypes. This study aims to compare the severity of obsession and working memory in children with obsessive compulsive disorder and healthy children.   Materials and Methods: In this correlation-comparative study, 140 st...