But in other cases habits can wreak havoc with our lives, as with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Harris' prescription was for Luvox, an anti-depressant medication commonly used to treat patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
It's often seen as a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, but some aspects don't fit the OCD pattern.
She threw in slight OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) for good measure, to which I scoffed, thinking of the clothes strewn about my house.
During the course of its career, Prozac has treated more than 38 million people in 100 countries for clinical depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder.
H. grant to investigate various mental illnesses, like obsessive-compulsive disorder and attention-deficit disorder, in terms of the ability to control and direct attention.
Optogenetics could improve upon existing implanted devices that are used to treat Parkinson's disease, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other ailments with pulses of electricity.
Anxiety disorders include obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), social phobia, and generalized anxiety disorder, and are usually treated with prescription drugs, talk therapy, or both.
Mulcahy came up with the idea for an app for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder that is a fully comprehensive tool with versions for children and adults.
Excessive grooming can be a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder, aggression and violence can indicate anxiety, and a refusal to eat can suggest depression in an animal.
But in the case of anorexia, bulimia and, possibly, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Dr Fetissov's work opens a new line of thinking about how these diseases might be treated.
The best proven psychotherapy for panic attacks is similar in many ways to the type of therapy that I've described several times before for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
In particular, there's a strong genetic component to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, as well as to several mood and anxiety disorders, including depression, bipolar disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The disorders run the gamut from panic attacks and specific phobias to obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, a random kind of worry described as free-floating and relentless.
Maybe I have a obsessive-compulsive disorder concerning my dog.
Psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz at UCLA puts patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder through a series of exercises to focus their brains on, say, working or playing music, instead of on behaviors such as obsessive hand-washing.
Like many people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Gillian said she was too embarrassed to talk about her condition with her family and used to try to hide her obsessional thoughts and ritualistic actions from them.
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Nevertheless, given the range of behaviours regulated by melanocortins and other, similar, messenger molecules, the suspicions that other psychiatric disorders in particular, obsessive-compulsive disorder are partly or wholly the product of a similar process seem entirely plausible.
The DSM committees already tried their damnedest to support their diagnoses with neuroscience or biomarkers, but no lab tests yet exist for depression, schizophrenia, bipolar or obsessive-compulsive disorder, or, for that matter, any other mental disorders.
In dozens of small patient trials staged over three decades, cognitive behavioral therapy has been shown to be surprisingly effective in quelling an ever expanding array of mental maladies: depression, anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress syndrome, bulimia, hypochondria--even insomnia.
If you think our culture has Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), try looking at it through the eyes of someone with Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD)!
Four of the women experienced significant improvements in control over their moods and emotional responses, eating disorder urges, and obsessive-compulsive thoughts and behaviors.
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In the postpartum version of the disorder, not surprisingly, the obsessive-compulsive thoughts generally revolve around the baby.
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And despite the fact that hoarding has traditionally been seen as a symptom or subtype of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), brain activity in those who cannot de-clutter is also distinct from that of people with typical OCD, the study shows.
The chimps were given SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors), which is a class of anti-depressant similar to Prozac and is used to treat human patients for depression, anxiety disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.
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