Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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Postpartum Exercise Reduces Depression and Anxiety Symptoms
“Further investigation should aim to investigate the effects of postpartum exercise in individuals who experienced perinatal complications and in...
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How Clinicians Can Help Patients Navigate Psychedelics/Microdosing
Responding to patient inquiries about microdosing can be complicated, and clinicians must provide counsel on issues of legality and therapeutic...
Commentary
When Is Sexual Behavior Out of Control?
Feeling less shame, fear, and secrecy may facilitate safer choices about sex, as well as testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections...
Conference Coverage
Avoidance Predicts Worse Long-term Outcomes From Intensive OCD Treatment
Although avoidant patients with OCD reported symptom improvement immediately after treatment, baseline avoidance was associated with significantly...
From the Journals
OCD Tied to a Twofold Increased Risk for All-Cause Mortality
Patients with OCD have higher risk for all-cause mortality, both from unnatural and natural causes, study says.
News
Catch and Treat a Stealth Diagnosis: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Targeted treatment dramatically improves the life trajectory of those with OCD.
Cases That Test Your Skills
Symptoms of psychosis and OCD in a patient with postpartum depression
Ms. A, age 37, has a history of postpartum depression. Four months after giving birth, she presents with possible auditory hallucinations and...
News
Brain volume patterns vary across psychiatric disorders
It’s “unlikely that a single cause or mechanism of a given disorder exists [so] a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to treatment is likely only...
Shrink Rap News
Prescribing lifestyle changes: When medicine isn’t enough
In prescribing lifestyle changes, it is important to offer most of these changes as suggestions, not as things we insist on.
From the Journals
Clinical index predicts common postpartum mental health disorders
PMH-affected mothers were slightly younger than unaffected women, more likely to be primiparous, and less likely to be recent immigrants.
From the Journals
OCD linked to adverse pregnancy and neonatal outcomes
It remains unclear whether all serotonin reuptake inhibitors increase pregnancy risks.