Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Archives
PsychBriefs: January 13-19, 2008 - January 19, 2008
Our weekly wrap-up of news, interesting research, and noteworthy happenings in the worlds of psychiatry, psychology, and social work. Bisexuality more than a phase A ten-year study of 79 non-heterosexual women shows that bisexuality in women should not be viewed...Continue reading "PsychBriefs: January 13-19, 2008"
Guidelines for Psychopharmacological Treatment of Young Children Released - December 12, 2007
In light of a recent increase in the number of children aged 3 to 6 receiving psychiatric medication, medical professionals have released a set of treatment guidelines, published in this month's Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent...Continue reading "Guidelines for Psychopharmacological Treatment of Young Children Released"
Psychedelic Mushrooms: The Magic Cure for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? - December 21, 2006
Just months after a Canadian medical professor revisited a 40-year-old experiment with LSD that kept some alcoholics sober since the sixties and researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) reported that the rave drug Ketamine might just be...Continue reading "Psychedelic Mushrooms: The Magic Cure for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?"
Paxil Shown to Treat Compulsive Hoarding - November 1, 2006
A University of California, San Diego study shows that paroxetine (marketed as Paxil) is effective in treating compulsive hoarding syndrome. Studying 79 patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), 32 of whom also had compulsive hoarding syndrome, researchers found that paroxetine...Continue reading "Paxil Shown to Treat Compulsive Hoarding"
Human Genome Scan Uncovers Areas Associated with OCD - October 4, 2006
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have identified six areas of the human genome believed to lead to susceptibility for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). In an analysis of DNA from 1,008 individuals from 219 families with two or more obsessive-compulsive siblings,...Continue reading "Human Genome Scan Uncovers Areas Associated with OCD"
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About Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
This page contains an archive of all entries posted to Psychology News and Research Briefs in the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders category. They are listed from oldest to newest.
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