A fresh understanding of OCD is opening routes to new treatments

We’re finally pinning down the mechanisms that drive obsessive-compulsive disorder, revealing a complex combination of imbalanced brain networks, the immune system and even gut microbes

NewScientistBy Anthea Rowan11 September 2024

“When my daughter was young, she washed her hands a lot. We might have poked what we thought was gentle fun at her, saying she was “a little bit OCD”. Later, she began to disclose “bad thoughts”, which I assumed were the typical products of a child’s imagination. I told her we all had thoughts like that, and if we ignored them, they went away.”

 

2 comments to A fresh understanding of OCD is opening routes to new treatments

  1. Elena Gormley
    January 16, 2025

    I’m not understanding why this article is not free to read. P/P families do not have extra resources to buy subscriptions to articles.

    Please tell me that the first few paragraphs of this article was not a teaser to charge these families money to read it.

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    • Gabriella True
      January 17, 2025

      We have zero control over the magazine’s choices to make articles public or not. We aren’t sure why you would think ASPIRE has anything to do with their business choices.

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