Expanding research on man’s best friend may just help us to understand and treat obsessive-compulsive disorder in humans.
“looked for the CDH2 gene in human OCD and found that it was implicated.”
For one, OCD isn’t found in all human populations; the natives of New Guinea, for example, "don't have anxiety-driven compulsive disorders and fears about personal safety other than the real ones that they're actually living with,” Dodman says. It is, however, found in millions of people in the “concrete jungle,” he adds, where there’s artificial lights flickering, computer screens, lack of exercise and lots of television.
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