Recent Foundation-funded research to improve the treatment of OCD includes:
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the most severe of the anxiety disorders, is characterized by recurrent, intrusive thoughts or obsessions—irrational fears of danger, illness or germs, for example—and repetitive, ritualistic behaviors and compulsions, such as constant hand washing. The symptoms of...
A recent 12-week study conducted by a team including John S. March, MD, MPH and Scott Compton, PhD indicates that cognitive behavioral therapy, in addition to medication, significantly improves the symptoms of OCD in children 7-17 years old
“Now that we have this model, we actually could pursue these ideas for better treatments in a disease where there is only one successful therapy,” said NARSAD Young Investigator Grantee Stephanie Dulawa, Ph.D....
NARSAD investigators have discovered a gene that may be central in the development of symptoms in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. Symptoms include repetitive behaviors from hand-washing to ritualistic counting of numbers and are associated with increased anxiety.
