title: Anxiety disorders. Focus on obsessive-compulsive disorder.
abstract: Obsessive-compulsive disorder was once thought to be rare. Recent epidemiologic surveys reveal the lifetime prevalence rate to be as high as 3%. We now have greater understanding of the neurophysiologic and neurochemical basis of this very crippling disorder. Although obsessive-compulsive disorder often starts in adolescence or early adulthood and can last a lifetime, effective treatment enables most patients to lead relatively normal lives.
authors.affiliation: University of Alberta, Edmonton.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Warneke
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy