Registration is now open for the 19th Annual ECNP-OCRN-ICOCS Scientific Meeting. The topic of this year’s meeting is the ICOCS-CANMAT Guidelines: New International Treatment Guidelines for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. The meeting will take place in Barcelona, Spain, as well as virtually over Zoom, on Wednesday, October 11, 2023.

Registration is free for paid-up ICOCS and OCRN members. To register, please email office@icocs.org and specify if you are attending in person or virtually.

If you are not currently an ICOCS member, but would like to attend the meeting, we encourage you to apply for ICOCS membership: https://icocs.org/join-us/registration-form/

Please visit here for more program details, as well as the guidelines for submitting a poster abstract.

UK Charity, Orchard need participants for their new OCD survey on new or alternative forms of OCD therapy.

This survey will help recruitment for OCD studies and those participating will be vital to the development of OCD treatments, which could help many others in the future.

Those participating must be 18 and over and self-identify as having OCD. They do not need to have an official diagnosis of OCD in order to participate. It will take no longer than 30 minutes to complete.

Below is the link to our survey:
https://redcap.herts.ac.uk/surveys/?s=LETKTCCJPM

Lectures given by ICOCS members Nick Sireau (Orchard) and Prof. Naomi Fineberg at the British Association for Psychopharmacology’s Summer Meeting 2022 at the Imperial College London.

Welcome to the website for the International College of Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS).

The ICOCS is primarily aimed at advancing, promoting and facilitating research into the causes and consequences of obsessive compulsive disorder and obsessive compulsive spectrum disorders. The organization intends to aid and stimulate mental health professionals and others to develop research projects in this field, and to help coordinate research efforts amongst members. To this end, our website will be dedicated to news, research findings, funding opportunities and new developments in the study of OCD and OC spectrum disorders. One or more scientific meetings will be held annually for ICOCS members and other interested clinicians and researchers.

The ICOCS also intends to increase public health awareness in regard to OCD and OC spectrum disorders with the hope of improving diagnosis and encouraging better deployment of resources for assessment and treatment. We shall be prepared to offer advice to legislative bodies and governmental agencies and cooperate on national and international treatment guidelines.