PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Symbolic Link, Caudate Nucleus, Classical Conditioning
1 Mar 2017
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Substance/medication induced obsessive compulsive and related disorder. Obsessive compulsive and related disorder due to another medical condition. Other specific obsessive compulsive and related disorder. Obsessions: persistent, intrusive thoughts, urges or images that cause anxiety or distress in most individuals, and that the individuals tries to ignore, supress or neutralize. Compulsions: repetitive behaviors or thoughts individual compelled to perform in response to an obsession, or according to rigid rules. O/c take more than 1 hour/day, or causes clinically significant impairment Not due to a substance, or another medical condition. Disturbance not better explained by symptoms of another mental disorder. 1% annual, 1. 5% lifetime prevalence in us. Usually starts in adolescence, early adulthood (can begin in childhood) for adults ocd, males = females, ratio is 1:1. For children ocd, male: female ratio is 3:1. Depression most common comorbid condition: 10x more common in ocd than in population generally, 33% of ocd patients have mdd when evaluated, 20% lifetime comorbidity with bipolar disorder.
