Seasonal obsessive-compulsive disorder

A case of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with seasonal variation in symptoms of 10-years duration is reported because of its rarity. The phenomenology of the observed disorder was obsessions related to dirt and contamination resulting in washing compulsions with onset in October and complete re...

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Autores principales: Sinha, Prakriti, Bakhla, Ajay Kumar, Patnaik, Ashok Kumar, Chaudhury, Suprakash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4361980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25788807
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.151701
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author Sinha, Prakriti
Bakhla, Ajay Kumar
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Chaudhury, Suprakash
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description A case of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with seasonal variation in symptoms of 10-years duration is reported because of its rarity. The phenomenology of the observed disorder was obsessions related to dirt and contamination resulting in washing compulsions with onset in October and complete resolution in April-May every year. The patient responded to phototherapy along with exposure and response prevention therapy and pharmacotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-43619802015-03-18 Seasonal obsessive-compulsive disorder Sinha, Prakriti Bakhla, Ajay Kumar Patnaik, Ashok Kumar Chaudhury, Suprakash Ind Psychiatry J Case Report A case of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with seasonal variation in symptoms of 10-years duration is reported because of its rarity. The phenomenology of the observed disorder was obsessions related to dirt and contamination resulting in washing compulsions with onset in October and complete resolution in April-May every year. The patient responded to phototherapy along with exposure and response prevention therapy and pharmacotherapy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4361980/ /pubmed/25788807 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.151701 Text en Copyright: © Industrial Psychiatry Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Seasonal obsessive-compulsive disorder
title_fullStr Seasonal obsessive-compulsive disorder
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title_short Seasonal obsessive-compulsive disorder
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4361980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25788807
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.151701
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