ocd (bio. expl)

• cognitive characteristics

  obsessed
• emotional characteristics

  anger

  anxiety

  fear
• behavioural characteristics 


  compulsions
• genetic basis 


  genes involved in individual vulnerability to ocd
• candidate genes 


  genes which create vulnerability for ocd
• ocd is polygenic

  230 different genes involved in ocd
• genetically diverse (aetiologically heterogenous) 


  ocd caused by different genes in each person
• ✔️ led to the development of ssri’s
• ✔️ scientific, observable testable concepts - reliable
• X biological reductionism
• X biological determinism