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OCD researchers

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show Recurrent thoughts, images or ideas. They are distressing and are unsuccessfully repressed by the individual.  
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What are compulsions?   show
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show Community study showing rates of OCD are approximately 3%. This is higher than previously found and could still be to low, as many sufferers do not come forward to receve help and are secretive about their condision.  
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Yayura-Tobias and Neziroglu   show
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show Suggested that OCD can be divided into sub disorders, those with checking compulsions or those with cleaning compulsions.  
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Black et.al   show
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Pauls et.al   show
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Billet et.al   show
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show Mice lacking in Sapap3 gene display high anxiety and excessive cleaning rituals. With additions of Sapap3 protein, behaviour returns to normal.  
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Insel et.al   show
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show There is evidence to suggest that OCD is related to an abnormality in the Basal Ganglia. This abnormality is often present in Parkinsons, Torretts and Huntington's, all of these dissorders can also involve obsessions and compulsions.  
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Max et.al   show
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show Surgery to legion the connection between the basal ganglia and the frontal cortex can reduce symptoms of OCD in severe cases.  
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show Basal ganglia impairment has not been found in significant prevalence in OCD sufferers compared with controls. This was using neuro-imaging.  
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Menzies et.al   show
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show No deferences in levels of serotonin in those with OCD compared to controls. Therefore is evidence against neurochemical imbalance theory and support the treatment aetiology fallacy.  
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show Found no higher incidence of toilet training issues in people with OCD compared to controls. This is evidence against the psychodynamic model of OCD put forward by Freud.  
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show Found little evidence to suggest that OCD rates were higher in those with an anal obsessive personality. Also, it can sometimes be difficult to asses wheather personality traits are a result of the dissorder. Also, some people display but no OCD.  
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Rauchman and Hodgson's theory of OCD   show
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show Asked OCD patients to keep a diary of O's. On days where they were instructed to suppress O's, levels were significantly higher than on non suppressing days.  
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Rauch and Jenike   show
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Foa et.al   show
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Effectiveness of psychosergery to treat OCD.   show
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show Found a moderate success rate for ERP but only completely asymptomatic in nearly 50% of patients. But it is quite common for patients to drop out.  
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Van Oppen et.al   show
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