background: this study aimed to assess the effectiveness of topiramate, a glutamate-modulating agent, in patients with treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) as an adjunct to serotonin reuptake inhibitors (sris). materials and methods: thirty-eight patients with refractory ocd, were randomly assigned to receive topiramate or placebo. this study was designed as a 12-week, double...

objective: compulsive or binge eating is a kind of disturbed eating behavior, which is mostly observed among dieting women, and is integrated with appetite disorder, and uncontrolled eating of plenty of junk food. the compulsive eating scale (ces) created first by kagan & squires in 1984, is an eight-item self-reporting instrument that is made to measure the severity of binge eating disorder. t...

INTRODUCTION Misinterpretation of intrusive thoughts because of obsessive beliefs has been thought to be important in the development of obsessive compulsive symptoms. In current study, (I) the difference between OCD patients and healthy controls in regard of obsessive beliefs and (II) the relation of obsesive beliefs with the prevelance and severity of obsessive compulsive symptoms was investi...

Compulsive buying has received increased research attention in the last decade. This study explores the relationship between compulsive buying and reactive and regulative temperament while controlling for depression and materialism. One hundred and thirty female psychology students filled out the Compulsive Buying Scale, the Behavioral Inhibition/Activation Scales, and the Effortful Control Sca...

objective: the present study was carried out to examine the efficacy of psychoneurotherapy (pnt) on reducing symptoms severity in treatment-naïve patients with obsessive-compulsive washing. this study evaluated a new form of psychotherapy based on neurobiological model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd).  methods: the study was conducted as a quasi-experimental research. the statistical pop...

Obsessive compulsive symptoms have been reported to occur in high proportion in schizophrenia. Presence of obsessive compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia has poor prognostic significance. Because of the antiobsessional effect of the fluoxetine, present study was undertaken as preliminary investigation in cases of schizophrenia with obsessive compulsive symptoms. We conducted an open trial of 12...

BACKGROUND Obsessive-compulsive disorder typically begins early in life and has a chronic course. Despite the need for long-term treatment, the information about therapeutic effect on different clinical subtypes is limited. METHODS Consecutive outpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder were evaluated for response to a two-month fluoxetine therapy course by Yale-Brown obsessive-compulsive ...

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...