Rücklab – Psychiatry research at Karolinska Institutet
Research on OCD and related disorders, precision psychiatry, psychiatric genetics, suicide prevention, stress and PTSD
Our Master Class on treatment of skinpicking and hairpulling just ended. Big thank you to Nienke Vulink, Marthe van der Pol and Pieter Ooms from the Anxiety clinic at the Amsterdam Medical Center. Hopefully new treatment groups will start all over Sweden soon.
Our next Karolinska OCD Master Class will be on Hoarding with Dr David Tolin on May 27. Read more at https://rucklab.com/ocd-master-classes/
Christian Rück has been promoted to Docent i psykiatri (Associate Professor) at Karolinska Institutet. Yes!
Lyssna på Morgonpasset på P3 nu på måndag 28 januari kl 08-09 när Christian Rück pratar om OCD (Tvångssyndrom). http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=2024
We have been at Hesselby Slott last couple of days to meet with Paul Lichtenstein and his many collaborators in twin and register-based research. We are ramping up our efforts in epidemilogical research on OCD, BDD, hoarding and tics/Tourette’s.
Rücklab and some affiliates visited the Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital in London last week where Fabian Lenhard and Sarah Vigerland from the child iCBT project BIP presented their research on the development of internet CBT for children with anxiety and OCD. 
The Center for Psychiatry Research arranges Master Classes in OCD-related topics and very good ones are lined up in 2013:
February 1: How to run a CBT group for skin-picking and trichotillomania by Nienke Vulink, MD PhD, Pieter Ooms, CBT nurse , Mechteld Hoogedoorn, psychologist, PhD, Amsterdam University. Registration and more info at: http://www.webbhotell.sll.se/sv/Psykiatriforskning/Forskning/Angestsjukdomar/Karolinska-OCD-Master-Class–/ .
May 27: Buried in Treasures: The Nature and Treatment of Hoarding Disorder by Dr David Tolin, Director, The Institute of Living and Adjunct Associate Professor at Yale University. Dr Tolin is well known for his research on OCD and Hoarding and has was the host of the TV series “The OCD project”. Registration not yet open.
December 2nd: The neurobiology of fear learning and extinction by Assoc Prof Kerry Ressler, Emory University, Atlanta. Registration not yet open.
All these will be held at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Campus Huddinge.
The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) has awarded our group leader a half-time position (“forskare på halvtid i klinisk miljö”) for a maximum of 6 years and the position comes with a yearly contribution of 880000 SEK.
Evelyn Andersson has roamed the lab with her iPhone and her impression are now published in our new Gallery section. 
Paulina Wiktor, first year psychology student, is a new volonteer in our group and today helped us send info on our OCD trial to each and every general practioner in Stockholm. Thanks!
Jesper Enander today sucessfully passed the admission seminar to become a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet. His studies will be on Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Christian Rück is main supervisor and co-supervisors are Brjánn Ljótsson, Paul Lichtenstein and David Mataix-Cols.
Rücklab - Psychiatry research at Karolinska Institutet 