Nancy J. Keuthen

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the mediating effects of organizational strategies used when copying a figure on subsequent nonverbal memory for that figure and found that OCD subjects differed significantly from healthy control subjects in the organizational strategy used to copy the RCFT figure, and they recalled significantly less information on both immediate and delayed testing.

TL;DR: The MGH Hairpulling Scale is developed to provide a brief, self-report instrument for assessing repetitive hairpulling and indicates that the seven items form a homogenous scale for the measurement of severity in this disorder.

TL;DR: This study underscores the clinical significance of severe hair pulling and highlights the need for research on its pathogenesis and treatment.

TL;DR: Replication of volumetric white-matter differences suggests a widely distributed structural brain abnormality in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

TL;DR: Self-injurious skin picking is a severe and chronic psychiatric and dermatologic problem associated with high rates of psychiatric comorbidity and may, in some cases, represent an attempt to regulate intense emotions.