Background Anxiety and related disorders are among the most common mental disorders,
with lifetime prevalence reportedly as high as 31%. Unfortunately, anxiety disorders are …

The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders includes a new
class of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (OCRDs) that includes obsessive …

Although several measures of obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms exist, most are limited
in that they are not consistent with the most recent empirical findings on the nature and …

Traumatic life events and early material deprivation have been identified as potential
environmental risk factors for the development of pathological hoarding behavior, but the …

The aims of the study were to estimate the prevalence rate of compulsive hoarding, and to
determine the association between compulsive hoarding and compulsive buying in a …

Laboratory experiments using fear conditioning and extinction protocols help lay the
groundwork for designing, testing, and optimizing innovative treatments for anxiety-related …

It is important to consider trauma-related sequelae in the etiology and maintenance of
psychopathology, namely understudied disorders such as those belonging to the Obsessive …

Introduction The obsessive-compulsive inventory revised (OCI-R) is commonly used for the
assessment of obsessive-compulsive symptomseverity, yet no severity benchmarks have …

The acquisition and saving of a large number of possessions that interfere with the use of
living areas in the home are remarkably common behaviors that can pose serious threats to …

Cognitive behavioral models of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) assume continuity
between normal obsessional intrusive thoughts (OITs) and obsessions. However, this …