Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

2014/08/13 by Jon E. Grant · 147 citations
Psychology · Medicine · #Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders #Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies #Eating Disorders and Behaviors #Medicine #Bedroom #Psychoanalysis #Psychiatry #Family medicine #Psychology #History

paper · doi:10.1056/nejmcp1402176

published in New England Journal of Medicine 371(7), 646-653 (Massachusetts Medical Society)

openalex publication_date 2014/08/13 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

A 19-year-old man is brought to his primary physician by his father, who explains that his son washes his hands a hundred times a day, will not touch anything that has been touched by someone else without scrubbing it first, and has a fear of germs that has left him isolated in his bedroom, unable to eat, and wishing he were dead. Although the father reports that his son has always been finicky, this problem started approximately 2 years ago and has gradually become completely disabling. How should this patient be evaluated and treated?

Citations

• Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) versus placebo for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
• World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for the Pharmacological Treatment of Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders – First Revision
• Genome-wide association study of obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Meta‐analysis of association between obsessive‐compulsive disorder and the 3′ region of neuronal glutamate transporter gene SLC1A1
• Deep Brain Stimulation for Intractable Psychiatric Disorders
• Insight in adults with obsessive–compulsive disorder

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• Obsessive–compulsive disorder [wikipedia]