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Society and culture
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Signs and symptoms
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Causes
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- Complications
- Tics, anxiety disorder, suicide
- Diagnostic method
- Clinically based on symptoms; Y-BOCS is the gold standard tool to assess severity
- Differential diagnosis
- Anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, eating disorders, tic disorders, obsessive–compulsive personality disorder
- Frequency
- 2.3%
- Medication
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), clomipramine, adjunctive atypical antipsychotics
- Risk factors
- Family history, neurobiology, temperament, childhood trauma, certain drugs and medications
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Overview
- Mental disorder
- Intrusive thoughts Intrusive thought
- Compulsions Compulsive behavior
- Demonic possession
- Anxiety
- Disgust
- Discomfort
- Contamination
- Symmetry
- Blasphemously Blasphemy
- Sexual obsessions
- Egodystonic
- Multifactorial Multifactorial disease
- Genetic predisposition
- Childhood trauma
- Neurotransmitter
- Yale–Brown Obsessive–Compulsive Scale
- Serotonin
- Dopamine
- Glutamate Glutamic acid
- Suicidality Suicide
- Exposure and response prevention
- Pharmacotherapy
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
- Clomipramine
- Atypical antipsychotic
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Deep brain stimulation
Signs and symptoms
- Meta-analysis
- Depression Depression (mood)
- Mean
- Pattern recognition Pattern recognition (psychology)
- Spatial working memory
- Neuroimaging
- Homogeneous
- Neuropsychological Neuropsychology
- Comorbidity
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Relationship rightness Relationship obsessive–compulsive disorder
- God
- Devil
- Disease
- Inanimate objects are ensouled Animism
- Scrupulosity
- Going to Hell Damnation
- Mysophobia
- Pathological fear
- Germs Microorganism
- Heterosexual Heterosexuality
- Homosexual Homosexuality
- Sexual orientation
- Sexual identity
- Pedophile Pedophilia
- Compulsive hoarding
- Idiosyncratic Idiosyncrasy
- Skin picking Excoriation disorder
- Trichotillomania
Causes
- Adverse childhood experiences
- Stress Stress (psychological)
- Methamphetamine
- Cocaine
- Olanzapine
- Clozapine
- Schizophrenia
- Delirium
- Genetic Genetics
- Identical twins
- Matched controls Matched control
- Genetic loci Locus (genetics)
- WDR6
- CTNND1 P120 catenin
- Excitatory neurons Excitatory synapse
- Hippocampus
- Subcortical Cerebral cortex
- Etiology
- Mutation
- HSERT
- Systematic review
- Allele
- Caucasians Caucasian race
- Homozygous Zygosity
- Genotype
- Genome
- Single-nucleotide polymorphisms Single-nucleotide polymorphism
- DLGAP1
- Case-control Case control
- SLC1A1
Mechanisms
- Orbitalfrontal cortex Orbitofrontal cortex
- Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
- Premotor cortex
- Temporal gyrus Superior temporal gyrus
- Globus pallidus externus
- Uncus
- Caudate Caudate nucleus
- Posterior cingulate cortex
- Superior parietal lobule
- Orbital gyrus Orbital gyri
- Anterior cingulate Anterior cingulate cortex
- Salience Salience (neuroscience)
- Insula Insular cortex
- Putamen
- Medial prefrontal cortex
- Precuneus
- Pallidum Globus pallidus
- Cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical Cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical loop
- Prefrontal cortex
- Grey matter
- Lenticular nuclei Lenticular nucleus
- Medial frontal Medial frontal gyrus
- White matter
- Fractional anisotropy
- Striatum
- Thalamus
- Modulatory Modulatory arousal system
- Amygdala
- Heterogeneity Homogeneity and heterogeneity
- Cerebellar Cerebellum
Diagnosis
- Psychologist
- Psychiatrist
- Social worker Social work
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
- Normal Normality (behavior)
- Suppress Thought suppression
- Egosyntonic Egosyntonic and egodystonic
- Self-concept
- Self-image
Management
- Psychotropic medications Psychotropic medication
- First-line treatments First-line treatment
- Homework Cognitive behavioral training
- Habituate Habituation
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Acceptance
- Mindfulness
- Inference-based therapy
- Cognitive therapy
- Senses Sense
- Inferential confusion
- Body-focused repetitive behaviors Body-focused repetitive behavior
- Habit reversal training
- Decoupling Decoupling for body-focused repetitive behaviors
- Cochrane review Cochrane (organisation)
- Psychodynamics
- Psychoanalysis
- American Psychiatric Association
- Controlled studies Scientific control
- Sertraline
- Fluoxetine
- Placebo
- Tricyclic antidepressants Tricyclic antidepressant
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Antipsychotics Antipsychotic
- Risperidone
- Aripiprazole
- Quetiapine
- Food and Drug Administration
- Supplementary motor area
Prognosis
- Quality of life
- Remission Remission (medicine)
History
- Plutarch
- Ancient Greek philosopher Ancient Greek philosophy
- Historian Hellenic historiography
- Describes Mental illness in ancient Rome
- Crown of flowers Wreath (attire)
- John Climacus
- Monk
- The Cloud of Unknowing
- Christian Christians
- Emotional flooding
- Abu Zayd al-Balkhi
- Possessed Spiritual possession
- Devil Satan
- Exorcism
- Kent
- England
- Justice of the peace
- Burned at the stake Death by burning
- German German language
- Karl Westphal Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal
- Pierre Janet
- Sigmund Freud
- Psychotherapy
- Vic Meyer
- Fear extinguishment Extinction (psychology)
- Flooding Flooding (psychology)
- Stanley Rachman
- Juan José López-Ibor
- COVID-19
- The pandemic COVID-19 pandemic
Society and culture
- Stigma Social stigma against mental disorders
- The Odd Couple The Odd Couple (film)
- As Good as It Gets
- Jack Nicholson
- Matchstick Men
- Nicolas Cage
- Martin Scorsese
- Monk Monk (TV series)
- Adrian Monk
- The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers
- Marc Summers
- Turtles All the Way Down Turtles All the Way Down (novel)
- John Green
- Callus
- The House That Jack Built The House That Jack Built (2018 film)
- Serial killer
- Pure Pure (British TV series)
- Charly Clive
Research
- Transcranial direct-current stimulation
- N-acetylcysteine Acetylcysteine
- Memantine
- Publication bias
- Ketamine
- N-methyl-D-aspartate N-Methyl-D-aspartic acid
- Psychedelics Psychedelic drug
- Psilocybin
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Nodes333
Edges332
Triples96
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.006006
Components1
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Obsessive–compulsive disorder
Top relations
related to Art, entertainment and media · 36
Obsessive–compulsive disorder → Adrian Monk, As Good, Aza, Aza Holmes, Built, Charly Clive, Compassionate, Felix, Green's, He, Howard Hughes, In, It Gets, Jack Nicholson, John Green, Marc Summers, Marc Summers's, Marnie, Martin Scorsese's, Matchstick Men
related to Procedures · 8
Obsessive–compulsive disorder → Drug Administration, Evidence, Existing, FDA, OCD, The, The United States Food, TMS
related to Epidemiology · 6
Obsessive–compulsive disorder → However, It, Males, Obsessive, OCD, Over
see also · 3
Obsessive–compulsive disorder → Delusional, Obsessive, OCD
Complications · 1
Obsessive–compulsive disorder → Tics, anxiety disorder, suicide
Diagnostic method · 1
Obsessive–compulsive disorder → Clinically based on symptoms; Y-BOCS is the gold standard tool to assess severity
Differential diagnosis · 1
Obsessive–compulsive disorder → Anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, eating disorders, tic disorders, obsessive–compulsive personality disorder
Frequency · 1
Obsessive–compulsive disorder → 2.3%
Medication · 1
Obsessive–compulsive disorder → Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), clomipramine, adjunctive atypical antipsychotics
Risk factors · 1
Obsessive–compulsive disorder → Family history, neurobiology, temperament, childhood trauma, certain drugs and medications
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Important terminology
ocd compulsions may compulsive obsessive treatment disorder symptoms obsessions people thoughts anxiety therapy found one children also ssris behaviors associated
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Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obsessive–compulsive disorder | Complications | Tics, anxiety disorder, suicide | 1.00 | infobox |
| Obsessive–compulsive disorder | Diagnostic method | Clinically based on symptoms; Y-BOCS is the gold standard tool to assess severity | 1.00 | infobox |
| Obsessive–compulsive disorder | Differential diagnosis | Anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, eating disorders, tic disorders, obsessive–compulsive personality disorder | 1.00 | infobox |
| Obsessive–compulsive disorder | Frequency | 2.3% | 1.00 | infobox |
| Obsessive–compulsive disorder | Medication | Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), clomipramine, adjunctive atypical antipsychotics | 1.00 | infobox |
| Obsessive–compulsive disorder | Risk factors | Family history, neurobiology, temperament, childhood trauma, certain drugs and medications | 1.00 | infobox |
| Obsessive–compulsive disorder | Specialty | Psychiatry, clinical psychology | 1.00 | infobox |
| Obsessive–compulsive disorder | Symptoms | Feel the need to perform certain behaviors repeatedly, have certain distressing thoughts repeatedly | 1.00 | infobox |
| Obsessive–compulsive disorder | Treatment | Cognitive behavioral therapy, medication, transcranial magnetic stimulation, surgery | 1.00 | infobox |
| Obsessive–compulsive disorder | Usual onset | Before 35 years | 1.00 | infobox |
| childhood trauma | instance of | environmental stressors | 0.80 | text |
| abnormalities in brain structure | instance of | environmental stressors | 0.80 | text |
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