Each one of us, sometimes or the other has this weird habit or maybe obsession of checking if we’ve locked the front door or not. You check once, locked. Check again, still locked. Third check. Fourth check. By the tenth check, you’re not actually discovering anything new, yet you can’t shake the doubt. For people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, this scenario is almost… daily. These individuals aren’t indecisive because they can’t think clearly. Instead, recent neuroscience research reveals that their brains struggle to update beliefs based on new information. A study…
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