{"id":166567,"date":"2023-06-28T00:25:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T05:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/chemical-imbalance-in-the-forebrain-underpins-compulsive-behavior-and-ocd-study-reveals"},"modified":"2023-06-28T00:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T05:25:41","slug":"chemical-imbalance-in-the-forebrain-underpins-compulsive-behavior-and-ocd-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/chemical-imbalance-in-the-forebrain-underpins-compulsive-behavior-and-ocd-study-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Chemical imbalance in the forebrain underpins compulsive behavior and OCD, study reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemical-imbalance-in-the-forebrain-underpins-compulsive-behavior-and-ocd-study-reveals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Cambridge have used powerful new brain imaging techniques to reveal a neurochemical imbalance within regions of the frontal lobes in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The research findings are published in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>The study shows that the balance between glutamate and GABA\u2014two major neurotransmitter chemicals\u2014is \u201cdisrupted\u201d in OCD patients in two frontal regions of the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers also found that people who do not have OCD but are prone to habitual and compulsive behavior have increased glutamate levels in one of these brain regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Cambridge have used powerful new brain imaging techniques to reveal a neurochemical imbalance within regions of the frontal lobes in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The research findings are published in the journal Nature Communications. The study shows that the balance between glutamate and GABA\u2014two major neurotransmitter chemicals\u2014is \u201cdisrupted\u201d in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}