Objective: To explore the effect of comorbid obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) on response inhibition functions in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Methods: Forty-five obsessive-compulsive patients with obsessivecompulsive personality disorder (OCD + OCPD), 42 obsessivecompulsive patients without obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCD OCPD) and 54 health...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: ADU: Anxiety Disorder Unspecified; NHANES: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; BMI: Body Mass Index; NESARC: National Epidemiologic Study of Alcohol and Related Conditions; HPA: Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal; CRH: Corticotrophin Releasing Hormone; AVP: Arginine Vasopressin; ACTH: Adrenocorticotropic Hormone; GAD: Genera...

This case report describes an adolescent boy suffering from alternating episodes of Kleine-Levin syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive disorder. His mother and brother suffered from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Comorbid ObsessiveCompulsive disorder with Kleine-Levin syndrome is still not reported in literature. Probably reported for the first time ever, this case may give important clue about the...

Editors: Despite the continued DSM-IV classification of trichotillomania as an impulse control disorder, its nosologic status remains controversial. Like obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD), serotonin selective reuptake inhibiting antidepressants (SSRIs) have shown some efficacy in treating trichotillomania, [1-3] but the self-injurious nature of the core behavior and the pleasure that patients ...

Method: During a one-year period, 30 patients with Tourette disorder were studied at an adolescent psychiatry referral clinic. It was an analytical-descriptive study. Subjects were selected by convenience sampling. The control group was selected from students in Tehran schools similar to the first group in terms of age and gender. K-SADS questionnaire was used to examine the existence of obsess...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a disabling illness that is currently managed primarily by pharmacotherapy and CBT. Though results are good, there is significant number of patients resistant to existing modalities of treatment. TMS is a relatively newer technique of treatment, which has shown effectiveness in treatment of OCD patients, both new and those resistant to other treatments. Th...

during the past three decades, there have been several studies concerning the efficacy of drugs and behavior therapy for treating obsessivecompulsive disorder. the high rates of relapse, and number of patients withour any improvement has turned clinicians attention toward the cognitive-behavior therapy (cbt) for the treatment of this disorder.this article has examined the efficacy of cognitive ...