The Anxiety Disorders Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland is recruiting adult OCD patients 18 or older. The Anxiety Disorders Research Program conducts interdisciplinary clinical research in an outpatient setting at the National Institute of Mental Health . The research includes genetic and family studies, brain imaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation as a probe potential treatment, and therapeutic trials of new medicines.
Participants receive a medical and psychiatric evaluation.
In general, all study patients must be free from major medical illness and able to tolerate the relatively unstructured outpatient research setting. Patients who are actively suicidal, in need of inpatient psychiatric treatment, or dependent on alcohol or drugs of abuse are not eligible. All procedures and treatment are free of charge. Research participants may withdraw from the program at any time. The program does not offer psychotherapy, but may be able to guide patients to low-cost psychotherapeutic treatment.