Research on OCD and related disorders, precision psychiatry, psychiatric genetics, suicide prevention, stress and PTSD
In this episode Dr. Rodriguez from Columbia University discusses her research and takes us through how Hoarding Disorder could lead to serious housing problems and how clinicians and others involved can approach this problem.
It has been a while since we posted a podcast but during the next couple of weeks we will have several new ones out, so keep following us!
In a new study that is just out in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, researchers led by Brjánn Ljótsson studied how different possible mechanisms of CBT contributed to its efficacy in Irritable Bowel Syndrome. We used parallel process growth mediational analyses (!) to study weekly ratings of gastrointestinal symptom-specific anxiety (GSA) and stress reactivity. Results showed that only GSA displayed a pattern consistent with a causal model in which change in process preceded and contributed to symptom change.
This week, Volen Ivanov vistited Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute to meet with some of Rücklabs favourite OCD researchers and present some of our lab’s recent work on Hoarding Disorder. Big thanks to Dr. Carolyn Rodriguez and Dr. Helen Blair Simpson for having him over! Follow us on Rücklab for some very interesting podcasts on OCD and related disorders coming out soon!
Historic day. #DSM5 just landed in the mail.
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.
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.
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.
Pictures from yesterdays meeting for everyone involved in our study of d-cycloserine in OCD, our biggest undertaking so far. 
Rücklab - Psychiatry research at Karolinska Institutet 
