01:830:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Caudate Nucleus, Agoraphobia, Sleep Disorder
28 Feb 2017
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Chapter 7: obsessive-compulsive related and trauma related disorders. Pursuing cleanliness and orderliness, sometimes through elaborate rituals, such as showering for hours a day, wiping down all objects as they enter the house, or asking visitors to wash before they enter the house. Performing repetitive, magically protective acts, such as counting, touching a body part, solving a math problem, or repeating a word again and again. Repetitive checking, such as returning seven or eight times in a row to see that lights. Stove burners, or faucets are turned off, windows are fastened, and doors locked. They don"t do this for fun, they can"t help it. Rituals to undo contact with a contaminated person or object. Hoarding and collecting things of no apparent value. Cleaning rituals related to the house or other items. Problems with this sense in people with ocd. Predictors for poor outcome: psychopathology of parents, lifetime history of tic disorder, poor initial response to treatment.
