Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders: A critical review of the new diagnostic class

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2015, Pages 165-186

  Abramowitz, Jonathan S ^a   Jacoby, Ryan J ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Body dysmorphic disorder; Excoriation; Hair pulling; Hoarding; Obsessive compulsive and related disorders; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Trichotillomania

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANXIETY DISORDER; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BASAL GANGLION; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDERS; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; COMPULSION; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DSM-5; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY LOADING; FEAR; FIRST DEGREE RELATIVE; HOARDING DISORDER; HUMAN; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUTRALIZING STRATEGY; OBSESSION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE AND RELATED DISORDER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OBSESSIVE HOARDING; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; ONSET AGE; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; RITUAL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SKIN PICKING DISORDER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYMPTOM; THINKING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDERS; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HOARDING DISORDER; HUMANS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

EID: 84964308470     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: 15485951     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032813-153713     Document Type: Review

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