Richard L. O'Sullivan

TL;DR: Results of functional magnetic resonance imaging were consistent with past studies of obsessive-compulsive disorder that used other functional neuroimaging modalities, however, paralimbic and limbic activations were more prominent in the present study.

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: Investigating the sensory phenomena in patients with OCD and/or Tourette's disorder to determine if these phenotypic features represent valid clinical indices for differentiating tic- related OCD from non-tic-related OCD found that feelings of incompleteness and a need for things to be "just right" were reported more frequently in the OCD plus Tourette't disorder group compared with the other 2 groups.

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.