HOUSTON – Researchers from around the world met Friday to discuss treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with a brain surgery called deep brain stimulation (DBS). The surgery has been used many ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is classified by the World Health Organization as 1 of the 10 most disabling conditions.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by repeated, intrusive thoughts or urges (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors employed to deal with the obsessions ...

Deep brain stimulation can halve the symptoms of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD as it is commonly known, finds a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published online in the ...

A recent study from Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital has identified a specific neural activity pattern as a novel biomarker to accurately predict and monitor the clinical ...

Dear Annie: I’d like to hear from people who were children of a mother with Contamination OCD. My daughter’s therapist determined it is a pretty severe case, but my daughter refuses to go to the ...

When traditional treatments fail to help patients with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), an implant that zaps the brain with electrical pulses just might, a new research review shows. It ...

In December, the Colts placed right tackle Braden Smith on the non-football illness list. There was no mention of the nature of the illness. Smith has now gone public with his condition. Joel A.

"Fast Car" country superstar Luke Combs has opened up about overcoming a two-decade struggle with a severe form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the 35-year-old revealed in a new interview. The ...