Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common, chronic, and oftentimes disabling
disorder. The only established first-line treatments for OCD are exposure and response …

Background Several interventions are available for management of obsessive-compulsive
disorder in adults, but few studies have compared their relative efficacy in a single analysis …

• The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale was designed to remedy the problems of
existing rating scales by providing a specific measure of the severity of symptoms of …

• The development design and reliability of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale
have been described elsewhere. We focused on the validity of the Yale-Brown Scale and its …

Background: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with affective and
cognitive symptoms causing personal distress and reduced global functioning. These have …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study was to test the relative and combined efficacy of
clomipramine and exposure and ritual prevention in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive …

In this report, which is an update of a guideline published in 2002 (Bandelow et al. 2002,
World J Biol Psychiatry 3: 171), recommendations for the pharmacological treatment of …

A number of qualitative and meta-analytic reviews point to the efficacy of psychotherapeutic
and pharmacological interventions for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In this article …

As many as half of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients treated with an adequate
trial of serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) fail to fully respond to treatment and continue to …

OBJECTIVE: No consistent predictors of outcome have been identified for the
pharmacotherapy of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Recent factor analytic studies …