Historic day. #DSM5 just landed in the mail.
Month: May 2013
A new paper is out using Swedish multigenerational register data showing that the risk for OCD among relatives of OCD probands increased proportionally to the degree of genetic relatedness. Also, partners of people diagnosed with OCD were more likely to have OCD.
David Mataix-Cols, PhD; Marcus Boman, BSc; Benedetta Monzani, MSc; Christian Rück, MD; Eva Serlachius, MD; Niklas Långström, MD; Paul Lichtenstein, PhD. Population-Based, Multigenerational Family Clustering Study of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. JAMA Psychiatry. 2013;():1-9.
http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1689532
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Rücklab’s Evelyn Andersson visited Department of Psychiatry at UCSD last week who hosts prominent researchers such as prof. Hagop Akiskal, famous for his extensive work on mood disorders and prof. John Kelsoe, a pioneer in investigating molecular genetics and bipolar disorder for over 20 years.
Our new Thermo Scientific Formas 88000 series freezer entered service yesterday with Prof Nils Lindefors cutting the red ribbon. The freezer now contains DNA of about 1500 individuals treated with internetbased-CBT and to a lesser extent RNA and plasma.
Rücklab - Psychiatry research at Karolinska Institutet 
