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Ny studie för OCD hos tonåringar (OCD study of iCBT in teenagers)

Barn- och ungdomspsykiatrin i Stockholm och Karolinska Institutet genomför ett forskningsprojekt för att undersöka internet-förmedlad KBT – Kognitiv Beteendeterapi. I det här projektet riktar vi oss till ungdomar
12 – 17 år som lider av återkommande obehagliga tvångstankar och/eller återkommande ritualer eller tvångshandlingar. Vanliga tvångshandlingar är till exempel att gång på gång kontrollera att spisen är avstängd, att tvätta händerna upprepade gånger eller att på ett tvångsmässigt sätt arrangera saker symmetriskt.
Studiedeltagare kommer att få tillgång till ett KBT behandlingsprogram på nätet. Behandlingen är kostnadsfri och pågår i 12 veckor under våren 2013.

Läs mer och gör intresseanmälan på www.bup.se/bip

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Master Class on Skinpicking and Trichotillomania

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Marthe van der Pol, Nienke Vulink and Pieter Ooms.

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/

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Rucklab x Twins = Research

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Diana, Erik, Evelyn, Jesper and Volen cracking statistical jokes.

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.

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Rucklab goes Nobel

Nobel Museum in Stockholm arranges the superb event “Science Café”, in which various experts are invited to present their areas of interest to the public. On February 5th, Volen Ivanov will hold a presentation on Hoarding and answer questions from the audience afterwards. The presentation will be in Swedish. The venue is “Nobel Bistro” at Nobelmuseet Stortorget 2, Gamla Stan. There is no entrance fee but you have to book in advance: bokning@nobelmuseum.se or 08-534 818 18.

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Fabian Lenhard and Sarah Vigerland presenting at the Institute of Psychiatry

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. IMG_3084

 

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New interesting Karolinska OCD Master Classes ahead: skin-picking, David Tolin and Kerry Ressler

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.

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Swedish Research Council gives grant to Christian Rück

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V for Victory: Erik Andersson, Volen Ivanov and Christian Rück.

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.

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Hoarding new disorder in DSM-5!

On December 1st, the American Psychiatric Association issued a news release announcing the novelties in the upcoming version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5, which will be published in May 2013. We at Rücklab are very pleased to see that Hoarding Disorder, one of our lab’s main interest areas, will be one of the very few new included disorders.  APA have embraced a conservative approach to DSM-5 and the number of disorders will be roughly the same compared to the previous version of the manual. It is stated that the inclusion of Hoarding Disorder is supported by “extensive scientific research” and we at Rücklab want to thank those envolved in this reserach during the past years.

We are confident in that the addition of this new disorder will spur the research field even more and we hope that those who benefit mostly from this inclusion will be the sufferers, and their families!

Read more:

http://www.psychiatry.org/