Essentials: The Science & Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Jul 9, 2026 · 36 min · YouTube

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0:00Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials, where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health, physical health, and performance.

0:11I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.

0:17Today we are talking about obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD.

0:22First of all, as the name suggests, OCD includes thoughts or obsessions and compulsions, which are actions.

0:29The obsessions and the compulsions are often linked.

0:32In fact, most of the time, the obsessions and the compulsions are linked such that the compulsion, the behavior, is designed to relieve the obsession.

0:41However, one of the hallmark themes of obsessive-compulsive disorder is that the obsessions are intrusive.

0:47People don't want to have them.

0:49They don't enjoy having them.

0:50They just seem to pop into people's minds and they seem to pop into their mind recurrently.

0:55And the compulsions, unlike other sorts of behaviors, provide brief relief to the obsession, but then very quickly reinforce or strengthen the obsession.

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