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Hoarding disorder is often described as if it might be “caused” by a single errant chromosome, but the trajectory of genetic research, from early linkage ...

A bike repair kit is unquestionably useful — unless you don’t own a bike and have no plans to get one in the near future.

There's a particular kind of silence that settles between aging parents and their adult children. It's not hostile, not even ...

Although research is sparse, Tom Bellamy, a neuroscientist at the University of Nottingham in England, estimated that as many ...

OCD became shorthand for being neat, organized or particular. Obsessive-compulsive disorder isn't about color-coding your closet. It's about control.

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Hadas Lederer began sharing her OCD journey on TikTok after years of struggling with intrusive thoughts in silence ...

I'm writing for advice about a dear friend, "Meg," who we've known for more than 40 years. She has a son, "Rodney," who went ...

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