We are starting research on Body Dysmorphic Disorder also known as Dysmorphophobia, a very under-researched condition. Psychologist Jesper Enander will be the project manager of the studies. We received 300000 SEK for this research line from the regional agreement on medical training and clinical research (ALF) between Stockholm County Council and Karolinska Institutet.
Evelyn Andersson presented our poster “Psychological Treatment Response of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder and Genetic Polymorphisms in Three Candidate Genes” yesterday.
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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):
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.
Rucklab starts the semester with presenting our new data at the EABCT meeting in Geneva. Click here to see our presentations!
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!
Rucklab continues to review the saga of CBT for OCD. Click here to read about another fantastic vintage article.
Rücklab - Psychiatry research at Karolinska Institutet 