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Misfiring of the brain's control system might underpin compulsions in obsessive-compulsive disorder, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge, writing in the American Journal of ...

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What is obsessive-compulsive disorder? Obsessive-compulsive disorder, also known as OCD, is based in anxiety. There are two components -- thoughts, or obsessions, and behaviors, or compulsions.

Misfiring of the brain's control system might underpin compulsions in obsessive-compulsive disorder, according to researchers.