Abramowitz, J. S., Franklin, M. E., Schwartz, S. A., & Furr, J. M. (2003). Symptom presentation and outcome of cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 71(6), 1049-1057.

Lewin, A. B., Storch, E. A., Merlo, L. J., Adkins, J. W., Murphy, T., & Geffken, G. R. (2005). Intensive cognitive behavioral therapy for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: A treatment protocol for mental health providers. Psychological Services, 2(2), 91-104.

Ruchsow, M., Gron, G., Reuter, K., Spitzer, M., Hermle, L., & Kiefer, M. (2005). Error-related brain activity in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and in healthy controls. Journal of Psychophysiology, 19(4), 298-304.

            Obsessive-compulsive disorder has been shown in previous studies to be associated with a hyperactive frontal-striatal-thalamic circuit. This study used electrodes, equally spaced, to determine the hyperactivity in the brains of those already diagnosed with OCD (n=11) and the same amount (n=11) of control participants who did not have any record of psychological diagnoses. The participants performed a go/no-go task several times and their EEGs were recorded. They found that the EEGs of those with OCD had higher activity during the tasks than those without.

            I found this journal article very interesting because I always knew there was some kind of chemical imbalance related to OCD. I had never known that it was actually over activity of the brain that contributes to this disorder.