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Article: Obsessive-compulsive disorder, brain activity linked: study
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- The Hindustan Times
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- July 18, 2008
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London, July 18 -- Researchers in Britain have discovered that measuring specific activities of the brain could help the early and more precise detection of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Current diagnosis of the disorder, popularly known as OCD, is based on a clinical interview that often occurs only after the disorder has set in. Now, for the first time, University of Cambridge scientists have associated functional changes in the brain with familial risk for the disorder
OCD is a debilitating condition that affects two to three percent of the population at some point of life. Patients suffer from recurrent intrusive ...