by Cloudways | Jan 14, 2012 | “Pure-O” Symptoms, OCD, OCD - General
OCD & Thought Control Can I learn to eliminate my OCD thoughts? I hear this question all the time from new patients who are searching for ways to suppress their unwanted thoughts. When I answer this question with a resounding “no”, there is often much...
by Cloudways | Jan 7, 2012 | “Pure-O” Symptoms, Contamination/Health-Related Symptoms, OCD, OCD - General
Although contamination OCD and washing rituals often go hand-in-hand, many rituals in this domain do not actually involve cleaning or disinfecting. These more subtle rituals are often based around reassurance seeking behaviors that become ingrained in everyday habit....
by Cloudways | Dec 15, 2011 | Contamination/Health-Related Symptoms, OCD, OCD - General
In my last post, I identified several idiosyncratic feared outcomes in OCD that are associated with contamination/health-related obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Obsessions are intrusive, recurrent, and distressing thoughts, impulses, or images related to these...
by Cloudways | Jul 29, 2011 | OCD, OCD - General
Does OCD affect decision making processes? Now that we have reviewed the neurobiology of OCD and cognitive deficits associated with OCD, what relevance might this have for predicting abnormalities on tasks of decision making? Sachdev and Malhi (2005) recently have...
by Cloudways | Jul 29, 2011 | OCD, OCD - General
What cognitive deficits are associated with OCD? Research has been successful in characterizing the underlying neurobiology of OCD, and cognitive abnormalities associated with the disorder have been documented within the domains of basic learning processes, attention,...
by Cloudways | Jul 29, 2011 | OCD, OCD - General
What causes OCD? Researchers have had much recent success in elucidating the neural circuitry involved in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Advances in functional neuroimaging have identified robust alterations in neural activity within particular functional...