What are some common methods of treatment for OCD?

What will be an ideal response?


-The most common medical treatment for OCD involves antidepressant medications, especially the SSRIs, some of which are effective in substantially reducing OCD symptoms-In particularly unresponsive cases, a form of psychosurgery -- a cingulotomy, in which a small bundle of nerve fibers connecting the anterior cingulate cortex to the frontal lobes are severed - has produced improvement in some cases

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A. 25% B. 50% C. 80% D. 95%

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The irrational functions are:

a. intuition and feeling b. sensation and intuition c. thinking and feeling d. thinking and sensation

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Mr. and Mrs. Jones have been married for 50 years. They have shared closeness and romance and have always worked at maintaining the relationship. What does their relationship demonstrate?

a. enduring love c. fairy tale love b. consummate love d. passionate love

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In fruit flies, levels of the proteins per and tim are highest during which of the stages illustrated in this figure?

A. number 1 B. number 2 C. number 3 D. number 4

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