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.
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.
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.
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!
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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 