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Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health
December 2024
Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Background: Obsessive-compulsive disorder is recognized by the World Health Organization as one of the top 10 most disabling disorders globally. Characterized by recurrent and persistent thoughts (obsessions) and/or repetitive behaviors (compulsions), it significantly disrupts an individual's daily life, impacting routine, education, career development, and social relationships. The disorder's prevalence varies worldwide, with studies in Saudi Arabia showing a higher rate of obsessive-compulsive symptoms among medical students.
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January 2025
Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China. Electronic address:
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic and disabling psychiatric disorder characterized by recurrent intrusive thoughts or repetitive behaviors. We sought to better understand the structure of gut microbiota in first visit registration, treatment-naive children and adolescents with OCD, and the relationship between gut microbiota and fecal metabolites. Thus we studied the gut microbial population using 16 S rRNA sequencing in 49 children (8-17 years of age) with OCD, 42 healthy controls (HCs).
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November 2024
Trichology Unit, Grupo de Dermatología Pedro Jaén, Madrid, Spain; Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Departamento de Biología de Sistemas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Alcalá, IRYCIS, Madrid, Spain.
Trichotillomania (TTM) is an obsessive-compulsive disorder in which affected individuals recurrently pull-out hair from any region of the body, causing hair loss or alopecia. The management of TTM is a therapeutic challenge for dermatologists and consists of a combination of pharmacological and non-pharmacological alternatives. Cognitive-behavioral therapy has successfully been used to treat TTM.
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