A New Way to Understand—and Possibly Treat—OCD

September 29, 2021

Researchers have found people diagnosed with OCD appear to have a more malleable “sense of self,” or brain-based “self-representation” — the feeling of being anchored here and now in one’s body—than those without the disorder. The findings suggest a new way to treat OCD and potentially insights into how the brain creates a distinction between “self” and “other.”

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