Children with OCD experience obsessive thoughts and perform compulsive behaviors to relieve their anxiety. Read about common signs and how to provide support.

You must have heard people recklessly throwing around the term ‘OCD’ whenever they want to convey how much they love ...

Key points Children with sudden-onset OCD before puberty may be suffering from PANS or PANDAS. PANS/PANDAS may cause inflammation in the brain that leads to the associated clinical symptoms.

Because obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) can start in childhood, it’s important to be aware of the signs. Experts estimate that about 1 in 200 children have OCD.

OCD in educational environments can be explored in terms of detection, interiority, and overcoming educational challenges.

She quickly makes the distinction between OCD and what she calls ‘normal development rituals’ that young children can display -- asking a parent to read the same bedtime story three times, for ...

However, for some children, these behaviors may be an early sign of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a condition often thought to affect only older children or adults.

These biomarkers are patterns of brain activity present in people with OCD when they're acting compulsively, and which don't ...

New research suggests there may be a link between the number of hours a child spends playing video games and their risk of developing obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

A new study suggests that reliance on devices may hinder children’s ability to learn to regulate their emotions. Another linked video game use to a risk of obsessive-compulsive disorder.