Rücklab – Psychiatry research at Karolinska Institutet

The DOCS is a self-report questionnaire designed to address the current limitations of existing obsessive-compulsive symptom measures. A new study from our lab published in the Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders give initial support that the DOCS, when administered via the Internet, exhibit adequate psychometric properties. Using the Internet to administer the DOCS can have many potiential benefits. For example, it can make data collection easier when studying the prevalence of OC symptoms in the general population.

Click below to access the paper (it’s Open Acess):

Enander, J., Andersson, E., Kaldo, V., Lindefors, N., Andersson, G., and Rück C. (2012) Internet administration of the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale: a psychometric evaluation. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders. doi: 10.1016/j.jocrd.2012.07.008

We have also gathered useful screening and assessment instruments available for clinicians both in english and swedish (including the DOCS).

Click on any of the following links to go to the measurements section of our homepage.

Diagnostic Tools, OCD, Hoarding, Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Volen Ivanov was interviewed on Swedish Vetenskapsradion (click to read more and listen)  on the differnce between OCD and Hoarding disorder and discussed a new fMRI study by David Tolin et al just published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

Volen will also appear on Swedish Radio P4 Extra at 3:45 pm today and tomorrow at 9:15 am on TV4.

Our research group met the other day to sum up our first year of existence as a research group. So, what have we been up to in the last year? Well, we’ve been part of 12 scientific papers, 2 new Ph D students have been enrolled, we showed that internetbased CBT works for OCD and we have been writing 3 big grant applications. And we started this site. And the next year looks even better with a lot of good things in the pipeline. We’ll keep you posted!

Professor Naomi Fineberg discusses the latest in pharmacological treatment of OCD and Hoarding when she meets up with Volen Ivanov.

All our podcasts are here.

The directors of ICOCS met in Stockholm last night. So, what is ICOCS? The International College of Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS) is an organization for researchers and mental health professionals. The organization intends to aid and stimulate mental health professionals and others to develop research projects in this field, and to help coordinate research efforts amongst members. Read more about ICOCS and how to join by clicking on the link above. The next meeting of ICOCS is in October in Vienna.