Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Classification
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Cognitive bias to symptom and obsessive belief threat cues in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

30 Jul 2009 The current study examined the extent to which patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) demonstrate cognitive biases to OCD symptom or inflated responsibility threat cues. Participants with either primary contamination-washing or ... Read more...

Differences in neuropsychological performance between subtypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

27 Feb 2009 OBJECTIVE: Neuropsychological studies have suggested that frontal-striatal dysfunction plays a role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), although findings have been inconsistent, possibly due to heterogeneity within the disorder and ... Read more...

Symptom dimensions and subtypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder: a developmental perspective.

30 Dec 2008 In the absence of definitive etiological markers for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD% obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptom dimensions may offer a fruitful point of orientation. These dimensions can be understood as defining potentially overlapping ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Cognitive bias to symptom and obsessive belief threat cues in obsessive-compulsive disorder. 30 Jul 2009
• Differences in neuropsychological performance between subtypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder. 27 Feb 2009
• Symptom dimensions and subtypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder: a developmental perspective. 30 Dec 2008
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder: subclassification based on co-morbidity. 30 Nov 2008
• Additional evidence for a quantitative hierarchical model of mood and anxiety disorders for DSM-V: the context of personality structure. 30 Oct 2008
• A developmental and evolutionary perspective on obsessive-compulsive disorder: whence and whither compulsive hoarding? 29 Sep 2008
• Body dysmorphic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder: similarities, differences and the classification debate. 30 Jul 2008
• Advances in understanding illness anxiety. 30 Jul 2008
• Two times four is four: OCD dimensions, classes, and categories. 29 Jun 2008
• Compulsive hoarding: OCD symptom, distinct clinical syndrome, or both? 13 May 2008
• [Schizophrenia with obsessive-compulsive symptoms or the group of schizo-obsessive schizophrenias: clinical characteristics and prognosis] 29 Apr 2008
• Genetic and environmental influences on obsessive-compulsive disorder. 28 Feb 2008
• OCD and anxiety: from afterthought to independence. 28 Feb 2008
• Cluster analysis of obsessive-compulsive symptomatology: identifying obsessive-compulsive disorder subtypes. 30 Dec 2007
• [Development of the "ICD-10-Symptom-Rating"(ISR) questionnaire] 30 Dec 2007
• [A review of the researches focusing on the heterogeneity of obsessive-compulsive disorder and its potential subtypes] 30 Dec 2007
• Uncomplicated and complicated obsessive-compulsive disorder: an exploratory study from India. 22 Oct 2007
• Autism spectrum traits in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). 22 Oct 2007
• Perception of facial expressions in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a dimensional approach. 13 Oct 2007
• [Remarks on the paper "clinical subtypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder based on the presence of checking and washing compulsions" by Fontenelle et al. (2005)] 30 Aug 2007

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Technical information about 'Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder'

Definition: An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent, persistent obsessions or compulsions. Obsessions are the intrusive ideas, thoughts, or images that are experienced as senseless or repugnant. Compulsions are repetitive and seemingly purposeful behavior which the individual generally recognizes as senseless and from which the individual does not derive pleasure although it may provide a release from tension.

Descriptor UI: D009771

Alternative terms: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive; Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders; Anankastic Personality; Anankastic Personalities; Personalities, Anankastic; Personality, Anankastic; Neurosis, Obsessive-Compulsive; Neuroses, Obsessive-Compulsive; Neurosis, Obsessive Compulsive; Obsessive-Compulsive Neuroses; Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.080.600;

Online Note: use OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER to search NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1966-80 & OBSESSION 1966-78

History Note: 81; was NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1963-80; OBSESSION was see under NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1963-78

Technical Notes: COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER is also available