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.
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!
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.
The study “An Etiologically Informative, Population-based Study of Tourette Syndrome and Chronic Tics Across the Lifespan” was awarded 149003 USD by the Tourette Syndrome Association . David Mataix-Cols (IoP) is PI for the study and co-applicants are Christian Rück, Eva Serlachius, Paul Lichtenstein (KI) and James Leckman (Yale).
Congrats to Evelyn who today very 
sucessfully passed the admission seminar. Her project is about genetic markers of CBT response. Supervisors are Christian Rück (main), Erik Hedman, Nils Lindefors, Catharina Lavebratt and Martin Schalling.
A new paper is out with lead author Erik Hedman studying predictors and moderators of outcome in CBT for social anxiety disorder. The most stable predictors of better treatment response were working full time, having children, less depressive symptoms, higher expectancy of treatment effectiveness, and adhering to treatment. The study also looked at gene polymorphisms (5-HTTLPR, COMTval158met, and BDNFval66met) but no association was found with treatment outcome. The gene story is part of Evelyn Andersson PhD study plan and she has be doing most of the wet lab work.
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Rücklab - Psychiatry research at Karolinska Institutet 