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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health disorder characterized by distressing repetitive patterns of thought, called obsessions, and behaviors aimed to reduce the distress, called compulsions. The explosion of artificial…

I present the first complete theory of OCD. OCD occurs when excessive CRH is released in the prefrontal cortex, activating cAMP. cAMP is a major inducer of HCN channels, which promote repeated neural firing. The combination of CRH, which is…

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