Rücklab – Psychiatry research at Karolinska Institutet

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.

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?