Rücklab visits University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

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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.

The lovely Paula Smith at UCSD guiding us around the lab.
The lovely Paula Smith at UCSD guiding us around the lab.
Post docs MJ and Bahou focuses on molecular genetics in schizofrenic mice and they showed us their well organized  wet lab.
Post docs MJ and Bahou focuses on molecular genetics in schizofrenic mice and they showed us their well organized wet lab.
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USCD campus

Opening cermony for our new freezer

Blue heart = OK.
Blue heart = OK.
Alexandra Tylec, Monica Hellberg and Nils Lindefors.
Alexandra Tylec, Monica Hellberg and Nils Lindefors.

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.

The Bror Gadelius memorial fund awards Erik Andersson grant

Erik Andersson has been awarded a grant from the Bror Gadelius memorial fund for our D-cycloserine study in OCD. Who was Bror Gadelius? Well, for someone working on a thesis on OCD like Erik Andersson it is interesting to know that Bror Gadelius, once a leading Swedish psychiatrist born in 1862 wrote his thesis on obsessions (Om Tvångstankar och dermed beslägtade fenomen) in 1896. Gadelius became a professor at Karolinska Institutet in 1903 and worked hard to reform mental health care including bringing psychiatric wards to the main hospitals instead of more remote asylums.

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Third award strike for Rucklab!

Last night, Rucklab students Gustaf Brander and Per Söderholm won the Swedish Association for Behavior Therapy award for “best master thesis” at the annual meeting in Uppsala. Gustaf and Per are Stockholm University psychology students under the supervision of Jan Bergström. Gustaf and Per have conducted a long-term follow-up for OCD patients treated with iCBT.  Congratulations Per and Gustaf, we´re very proud of this achievement! This is the third time Rucklab students have received this award. Maybe they should nominate themselves for our own student award?

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Fabian Lenhard is offically a PhD student!

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Fabian Lenhard

Fabian Lenhard passed his admission seminar to become a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet. Congrats! His main supervisor is Eva Serlachius, David Mataix-Cols and Christian Rück are his co-supervisors. Fabian has just started the pilot study on internet-based CBT for OCD for 12-17 year olds. For more info (in Swedish) click here.

Ny studie för dysmorfofobi (BDD)

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Det är inte ovanligt att må dåligt över sitt utseende, men ibland kan man bli så upptagen vid ett upplevt fel att det leder till ångest och nedsatt förmåga att arbeta eller umgås. En person med dysmorfofobi (även kallat Body Dysmorphic Disorder, BDD) besväras av återkommande och påträngande tankar om att något är fel med utseendet, trots försäkringar från andra om att så inte är fallet. Ofta försöker man dölja eller kontrollera den del av utseendet som man inte är nöjd med.

Vid Karolinska Institutet genomförs just nu en studie där vi testar Internetförmedlad KBT för att minska det lidande som är personer med ett starkt missnöje över sitt utseende upplever.

Studien är tillgänglig för personer med dysmorfofobi. Du måste vara minst 18 år. Deltagandet är gratis. Behandlingen sköter du via dator.

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