The Rück Research Lab is giving out an award for best thesis

More research is needed on the OCD spectrum disorders. To reward students who are interested in this area the Rück Research Lab is giving out an award for best thesis written in the field. At the moment only Swedish students are eligible for the award.

Read more about the reward and how to nominate by clicking here

Erik Andersson successfully passed his PhD half-time seminar today

Erik Andersson today passed the half-way milestone of his Ph D project on how to enhance CBT in OCD. The review board  consisted of Professors Bo Melin, Bo Runeson and Mats Fredriksson. As you can see in the picture, they were busy taking notes.

Jesper Enander from our lab awarded for best master thesis by BTF!

Jesper Enander (right)

The Swedish Association for Behavioral Therapy (Beteendeterapeutiska föreningen) honored Jesper Enander and Per Andrén the award for the best Master Thesis in 2011! And the best master thesis resulted in this paper out of our lab. Congrats Jesper and Per!

Our best friend David Mataix-Cols promoted to Professor!

Congrats to David Mataix-Cols who has been promoted to Professor of Clinical Psychobiology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.

David (or, as he should be called Professor Mataix-Cols) is a leading OCD and related disorders reseacher and we are fortunate to collaborate with him on several project including twin studies of hoarding.