Impact of childhood maltreatment on obsessive-compulsive disorder symptom severity and treatment outcome.

: Preliminary evidence suggests childhood maltreatment to play a causal role in the development and maintenance of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, both the effect of childhood maltreatment on the course of OCD treatment and the role of specific subtypes of maltreatment remain largely unknown. : This study aimed to investigate the relationship between childhood maltreatment and the severity and time course of OCD symptoms within a clinical sample of OCD patients ( = 68).

Social Pavlovian conditioning: Short- and long-term effects and the role of anxiety and depressive symptoms.

Today's stressors largely arise from social interactions rather than from physical threat. However, the dominant laboratory model of emotional learning relies on physical stimuli (e.g.