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The International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) is the largest 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to serving a broad community of individuals with OCD and related disorders, their family members and loved ones, and mental health professionals and researchers around the world. Since 1986, the IOCDF provides up-to-date education and resources ...
OCD Fact #4: ‘Being a Little OCD’ Is Not a Thing Saying “I’m so OCD” when you like things neat is misleading. True OCD is a diagnosable disorder that can cause significant distress.
OCD Awareness Week was launched in 2009 by the International OCD Foundation. [2] Its goal is an international effort to raise awareness and understanding about Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders and to help get more people access to treatment for the condition. [2] It takes place in the second week of October each year.
Jean-Martin Charcot (French: [ʒɑ̃ maʁtɛ̃ ʃaʁko]; 29 November 1825 – 16 August 1893) was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. [2] He worked on groundbreaking work about hypnosis and hysteria, in particular with his hysteria patient Louise Augustine Gleizes. [3]
OCD is often considered a quirk or a helpful personality trait, but it’s more serious and often more debilitating than that, experts say. Here’s what you need to know.
Use of the "blood-oxygen-level dependent" (BOLD) in MRI first discovered by Dr. Seiji Ogawa [23] 1991. Kenneth Kwong successfully applied BOLD to image human brain activities with MRI, and published the findings in 1992. [24] 1994. The appetite-suppressing hormone leptin was discovered. 1996
Studies with ArKO mice have been used to show that varying levels of estrogen affect the onset of OCD behaviors. Lower amounts of estrogen are associated with an increase of OCD behaviors in males more than females. [26] Variation in estrogen can lead to increased levels of OCD symptoms within women as well.
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