OCD is a mental health condition in which a person has obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours. Nearly 90 per cent of young people with OCD have problems at school, home or socially, including difficulties doing homework and concentrating at school.
A team of researchers, led by Dr Julia Gottwald and Professor Barbara Sahakian from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Psychiatry, asked 36 adolescents with OCD and 36 healthy young people to complete a series of learning and memory tasks. They found that youngsters with OCD experienced problems in all the tasks.
“I was surprised and concerned to see such broad problems of learning and memory in these young people so early in the course of OCD,” said Prof Sahakian, the study’s senior author.
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