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Is OCD an addiction like drugs or gambling?

People with OCD can make risky judgements when decks of cards are stacked against them – a trait they share with gambling addicts

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The therapy pill: Forget your phobia in fast forward

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The therapy pill: Forget your phobia in fast forward

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First test to predict Alzheimer's years in advance

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First test to predict Alzheimer's years in advance

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Feeling sad? Computer knows by looking at how you move

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Feeling sad? Computer knows by looking at how you move

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Ear bath helps explain rare urge to cut off own limb

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Cannabis can kill without the influence of other drugs

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Cannabis can kill without the influence of other drugs

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Health trauma of floods may last after waters subside

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Health trauma of floods may last after waters subside

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Spit test could allow depression screening at school

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Spit test could allow depression screening at school

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Autoimmune attack behind some cases of schizophrenia

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Autoimmune attack behind some cases of schizophrenia

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Exercise could help prevent age-related blindness

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Exercise could help prevent age-related blindness

Regular exercise may have the power to ward off a common cause of blindness called macular degeneration, according to research with mice on tiny treadmills

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Rethinking schizophrenia: Taming demons without drugs

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Antipsychotic drugs are schizophrenia's hidden gulag

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Worried sick: What's up with today's rampant anxiety?

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Autism diagnosis change 'results in loss of treatment'

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