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What Medication Is Used to Treat OCD?

What Medication Is Used to Treat OCD? (0:25)

Anti-depressants are the typical medication used for treating obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). In this video, HealthMaker Jerry Bubrick, PhD, with the Child Mind Institute, talks about the different types and how they work.

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[BLANK_AUDIO] Typically the medicine that we are using for OCD are the anti depressants, the selective seratonin reuptake inhibitors. Medicines like Zoloft and Prozac are usually our first, our kind of go to medicines and so they'll stimulate the brain and change the way the brains regulates seratonian which is the neural transmitter that we are going after in the OCD.

Jerry Bubrick, PhD

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