While players were in the battle of the NFL season, Braden Smith was fighting a different one: the one going on inside his ...

Cameron Mofid, 25, recently traveled to North Korea — making him one of few that have traveled to all 195 countries. Mofid ...

The symptoms of PANDAS are similar to OCD. OCD is a disruptive and often debilitating mental health disorder, marked by repeated cycles of obsessive and ritualistic tics, behaviors, actions and ...

For people with severe OCD, therapy alone may not be enough. Medication can play a big role in treatment. The most commonly ...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation with added symptom provocation was effective compared with sham for both obsessive-compulsive disorder and nicotine addiction, results of a systematic meta-analysis ...

Growing up, it wasn’t my cystic fibrosis that fueled my anxiety — it was the checklist of mental tasks I believed would prevent disaster. It wasn’t until adulthood that I learned this behavior is ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers have linked rare “de novo” genetic mutations—copy number variants (CNVs)—to pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Psychiatry scholars who helped create the gold-standard treatment for pediatric OCD are developing more innovative and accessible delivery methods.