OCD
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- Created on: 23-04-20 15:38
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- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Definitions
- Compulsions
- Repetitive behaviours or thoughts that the person feels compelled to perform to prevent distress
- Often involve repetitive behaviours or rigid rules
- Excessive and often unlikely to prevent dreaded situation
- Obsessions
- Recurrent, intrusive, persistent unwanted thoughts or urges
- Compulsions
- Biological Theories
- Brain Mechanisms
- Higher activity in the orbitofrontal cortex, the causate nucleus and the anterior cingulate
- Common genetic factors for OCD, BDD and HD
- Brain Mechanisms
- Cognitive factors
- OCD and HD impairment in response inhibition and other factors
- HD is associated with impairment in organisation, categorisation and decision-making
- Treatment
- Psychological
- Cognitive and cognitive behavioural therapies most common
- Exposure and response prevention
- Produces improvement in up to 75%
- Drop out rates are high
- CBT used in HD to challenge irrational beliefs
- Biological
- Anti-depressants are most common
- SSRIs
- Most people continue to experience mild symptoms
- Deep brain stimulation
- Suggested in severe cases of OCD not responding to treatment
- Psychological
- Definitions
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