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More than half of American college students have considered suicide at some points in their lives.

A sad Christmas memory for me was of Christmas 1994. My mother had died 4 months earlier and since I always lived with her and was her sole caregiver until she died at 76 years old of Parkinson's Disease, it's needless to say that we were very close.

Do you or someone you know have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and don't know where to turn for help? A good place to start is with the book, This self-help book is written by Jeffrey Schwartz, a psychiatrist at UCLA School of Medicine who says that OCD is related to a biochemical imbalance in the brain, rather than due specifically to emotional ...

There is stillness in a classroom; third period is the worst. To her the classroom isn't right and makes her nervous.

Context Neurobiological models of obsessive-compulsive disorder emphasize disturbances in the function and connectivity of brain corticostriatal networks, or "loops." Although neuroimaging studies of patients have supported this network model of OCD, very few have applied measurements that are sensitive to brain connectivity features.

Context Several studies have indicated that atypical antipsychotics induce obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK, and Institut d'Alta Tecnologia, Parc de Recerca Biomdica de Barcelona, Spain David Mataix-Cols, PhD Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK Correspondence: Joaquim Radua, Division of Psychological Medicine, ...

The Journal of Small Animal Practice published a study done by a team of veterinarians that has linked high cholesterol to tail chasing in dogs.

Dozens of people packed into the Pond Student Union at Idaho State University to talk about health care.

Our society is emotionally disabled. According to National Institute of Mental Health statistics for 2005, one in four Americans age 18 and older suffers from a "diagnosable mental disorder" in a given year.

New research suggests that deep brain stimulation, already a common treatment for some neurological conditions, may be an effective way to treat Tourette syndrome.

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder. According to the National Institute of Mental Health , OCD affects nearly 2% of the American population.

The Mental Health Association in Abilene is pleased to announce a new support group for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Autism comprises a spectrum of behavioral and cognitive disturbances of childhood development and is known to be highly heritable.

A new study indicates a link between autism and alterations to the oxytocin receptor, OXTR, caused by inherited alterations that do not involve DNA sequence mutation.

Strep and OCD, Tourette Joan Stephenson, PhD JAMA. 2009;302 :1640. Group A streptococcal infections do not appear to trigger Tourette syndrome or obsessive-compulsive disorder , according to a case-control study by researchers in England, a finding at odds with some smaller studies conducted in the United States .

James was preoccupied with germs and illness. He was afraid that anything he touched would contaminate him with a horrible sickness that he might pass along to his wife, Beth, and infant son.