Erik Andersson successfully passed his PhD half-time seminar today

Erik Andersson today passed the half-way milestone of his Ph D project on how to enhance CBT in OCD. The review board  consisted of Professors Bo Melin, Bo Runeson and Mats Fredriksson. As you can see in the picture, they were busy taking notes.

Jesper Enander from our lab awarded for best master thesis by BTF!

Jesper Enander (right)

The Swedish Association for Behavioral Therapy (Beteendeterapeutiska föreningen) honored Jesper Enander and Per Andrén the award for the best Master Thesis in 2011! And the best master thesis resulted in this paper out of our lab. Congrats Jesper and Per!

Our best friend David Mataix-Cols promoted to Professor!

Congrats to David Mataix-Cols who has been promoted to Professor of Clinical Psychobiology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.

David (or, as he should be called Professor Mataix-Cols) is a leading OCD and related disorders reseacher and we are fortunate to collaborate with him on several project including twin studies of hoarding.

Wow: grant from the Tourette Syndrome Association

The study “An Etiologically Informative, Population-based Study of Tourette Syndrome and Chronic Tics Across the Lifespan” was awarded 149003 USD by the Tourette Syndrome Association . David Mataix-Cols (IoP) is PI for the study and co-applicants are Christian Rück, Eva Serlachius, Paul Lichtenstein (KI) and James Leckman (Yale).