title: [Obsessive compulsive disorder].
abstract: Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disabling psychiatric problem frequently encountered, with a chronic, fluctuating course. Several symptomatic categories are described, depending on the kind of symptoms displayed and on underlying cognitive disturbances and beliefs. OCD has a strong genetic component but environmental factors leading to cerebral lesions in the striatum have also been implicated. Treatment usually associates medication and behavior therapy. It has a favorable impact, most of the time, on the patients' functioning, total remission being rather rare.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Psychiatrie, CHU Brugmann, ULB, Bruxelles.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kornreich
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy