Congrats to Evelyn who today very 
sucessfully passed the admission seminar. Her project is about genetic markers of CBT response. Supervisors are Christian Rück (main), Erik Hedman, Nils Lindefors, Catharina Lavebratt and Martin Schalling.
Month: March 2012
A new paper is out with lead author Erik Hedman studying predictors and moderators of outcome in CBT for social anxiety disorder. The most stable predictors of better treatment response were working full time, having children, less depressive symptoms, higher expectancy of treatment effectiveness, and adhering to treatment. The study also looked at gene polymorphisms (5-HTTLPR, COMTval158met, and BDNFval66met) but no association was found with treatment outcome. The gene story is part of Evelyn Andersson PhD study plan and she has be doing most of the wet lab work.
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Each week, we publish a new study we find interesting. We have also managed to get a short interview with one of the authors. CLICK HERE
If you are going to the European Psychiatric Congress in Prague the coming week you may want to check out the CME course on iCBT (nr 10) Nils Lindefors, Erik Hedman and Christian Rück are giving .
Rücklab - Psychiatry research at Karolinska Institutet 