What Is the Future of OCD Research?

What Is the Future of OCD Research? (0:59)

Physicians are starting to understand the causes of OCD and develop better therapies for the condition. In this video, Wayne Goodman, MD, psychiatrist at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, talks about the future of OCD treatment.

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The Area Future Research and Therapeutic that excites me the most is learning more about the underlying circuitry and causes of OCD. So I'm hoping at some point that we can come up with much more targeted and less invasive treatments, that allow us to alter a part of the brain without implanting electrodes.

Something that's far less invasive. Also prevention so being able to identify which individuals are at greatest risk of developing OCD and perhaps through behavior therapy early on, we can prevent the occurrence of the illness in he first place.