Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

"Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent, persistent obsessions or compulsions. Obsessions are the intrusive ideas, thoughts, or images that are experienced as senseless or repugnant. Compulsions are repetitive and seemingly purposeful behavior which the individual generally recognizes as senseless and from which the individual does not derive pleasure although it may provide a release from tension.

Descriptor ID	D009771
MeSH Number(s)	F03.080.600
Concept/Terms	Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Neurosis, Obsessive-Compulsive Neuroses, Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis, Obsessive Compulsive Obsessive-Compulsive Neuroses Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis Anankastic Personality Anankastic Personalities Personalities, Anankastic Personality, Anankastic

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder".

Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Mental Disorders [F03]
Anxiety Disorders [F03.080]
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder [F03.080.600]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder".

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Hoarding Disorder

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Bar chart showing 31 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2007 and 2011 and 2019

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	0	1
2000	0	1	1
2002	2	0	2
2003	1	1	2
2005	1	0	1
2007	3	0	3
2009	1	0	1
2010	2	0	2
2011	2	1	3
2012	1	1	2
2013	2	0	2
2014	1	1	2
2015	1	0	1
2017	1	0	1
2018	1	0	1
2019	2	1	3
2020	1	1	2
2024	1	0	1

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Halvorsen MW, de Schipper E, B?ckman J, Strom NI, Hagen K, Lindblad-Toh K, Karlsson EK, Pedersen NL, Wallert J, Bulik CM, Fund?n B, Land?n M, Kvale G, Hansen B, Haavik J, Mattheisen M, R?ck C, Mataix-Cols D, Crowley JJ. A burden of rare copy number variants in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Mol Psychiatry. 2025 Apr; 30(4):1510-1517.

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Snorrason I, Beard C, Peckham AD, Bj?rgvinsson T. Transdiagnostic dimensions in obsessive-compulsive and related disorders: associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Psychol Med. 2021 07; 51(10):1657-1665.

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Bey AL, Gorman MP, Gallentine W, Kohlenberg TM, Frankovich J, Jiang YH, Van Haren K. Subacute Neuropsychiatric Syndrome in Girls With SHANK3 Mutations Responds to Immunomodulation. Pediatrics. 2020 02; 145(2).

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Khurshid KA. High frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of supplementary motor cortex for obsessive compulsive disorder. Med Hypotheses. 2020 Apr; 137:109529.

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Mataix-Cols D, Hansen B, Mattheisen M, Karlsson EK, Addington AM, Boberg J, Djurfeldt DR, Halvorsen M, Lichtenstein P, Solem S, Lindblad-Toh K, Haavik J, Kvale G, R?ck C, Crowley JJ. Nordic OCD & Related Disorders Consortium: Rationale, design, and methods. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2020 01; 183(1):38-50.

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Deeb W, Malaty IA, Mathews CA. Tourette disorder and other tic disorders. Handb Clin Neurol. 2019; 165:123-153.

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Barrera TL, McIngvale E, Lindsay JA, Walder AM, Kauth MR, Smith TL, Van Kirk N, Teng EJ, Stanley MA. Obsessive-compulsive disorder in the Veterans Health Administration. Psychol Serv. 2019 Nov; 16(4):605-611.

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He X, Steinberg E, Stefan M, Fontaine M, Simpson HB, Marsh R. Altered frontal interhemispheric and fronto-limbic structural connectivity in unmedicated adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Hum Brain Mapp. 2018 02; 39(2):803-810.

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Noh HJ, Tang R, Flannick J, O'Dushlaine C, Swofford R, Howrigan D, Genereux DP, Johnson J, van Grootheest G, Gr?nblatt E, Andersson E, Djurfeldt DR, Patel PD, Koltookian M, M Hultman C, Pato MT, Pato CN, Rasmussen SA, Jenike MA, Hanna GL, Stewart SE, Knowles JA, Ruhrmann S, Grabe HJ, Wagner M, R?ck C, Mathews CA, Walitza S, Cath DC, Feng G, Karlsson EK, Lindblad-Toh K. Integrating evolutionary and regulatory information with a multispecies approach implicates genes and pathways in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Nat Commun. 2017 10 17; 8(1):774.

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Hamani C, Pilitsis J, Rughani AI, Rosenow JM, Patil PG, Slavin K, Abosch A, Eskandar E, Mitchell L, Kalkanis S. In Reply: Stereotactic Microanatomy of the Nucleus Accumbens Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Reported Coordinates and Mavridis' Area. Neurosurgery. 2015 Jul; 77(1):E156-7.

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