OCD makes people behave like gamblers

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2960, 2014, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In a test designed to measure decision-making, individuals with OCD performed much like gambling addicts, suggesting their underlying brain problems may be similar. People with OCD might benefit from talking therapies and drugs designed for addictions, says Giacomo Grassi at the University of Florence in Italy, who recently presented the work at the European Congress of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany. For example, a compound called N-acetylcysteine, which looks promising as a treatment for drug and gambling addiction, also seems to help in OCD.