Rücklab – Psychiatry research at Karolinska Institutet
Research on OCD and related disorders, precision psychiatry, psychiatric genetics, suicide prevention, stress and PTSD
Yesterday, Max made an outstanding appearance on TV4 Efter fem talking about obsessive-compulsive disorder and the Bergen study. The Bergen 4-day treatment compares an intensive treatment format of four consecutive days of combined group and individual therapy with gold-standard weekly treatment.
Recently, you may have come across our research in your daily podcast feed.
In Beslutspodden, Lina Martinsson – research team leader and operations manager at Psykiatri Sydväst – visits and talks about her career as a reserarcher/clinician/manager. Lina runs the Braining project – physical activity in a clinical setting, involving both patients and clinicians.
We also noticed that our Bergen 4 day treatment non-inferiority RCT for OCD was mentioned in the Daddy Issues podcast a while ago. Julia Lyskova talks about her experience of being a participant in the study’s intensive treatment study arm. She describes her OCD-related problems and the extent to which they have affected her daily life and well-being. “I have thought that I have killed everyone I love”, Lyskova says in the podcast, summarizing what it can feel like to live with the disorder. She also describes her ambivalence about participating and approaching what she is afraid of, how much willpower is required to attend the treatment and the experience of improvement.
Take the time to listen to these two podcasts that bridge research and reality.
Click here to read more about Braining.
Click here to read mor about the Bergen 4-day treatment and the randomized controlled trial.
Ekaterina Ivanova has received not one but TWO grants from Swedish Society of Medicine (Svenska Läkaresällskapet), the post doc grant and the project grant.
Both of the grants are for the Bergen 4 Day treatment project, an RCT testing the non-inferiority, speed of recovery, and cost-effectiveness of Bergen 4-Day Treatment (B4DT) for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), compared to gold-standard CBT.
Read more about the Bergen 4 Day treatment-project here.
Congratulations Katja! 🎺🎺🎺
Sunny midsummer was great, but we are even happier that Max Sannemalm just joined our group!
Max is a licensed psychologist and will be joining us as the project coordinator for the randomized controlled non-inferiority trial study comparing the Bergen 4-Day Treatment (B4DT) to gold-standard CBT for OCD.
The Bergen 4-Day Treatment (B4DT) is a new concentrated treatment for OCD developed by Gerd Kvale and Bjarne Hansen from Bergen. In B4DT, patients receive ERP at a clinic during 4 consecutive days. The B4DT has shown to achieve remission in around 70% of patients when delivered in regular care in several uncontrolled treatment trials, and one randomized controlled trial (RCT) including a self-help group and a waitlist group. However, it has yet to be directly compared to gold-standard CBT.
The study will test the non-inferiority, speed of recovery, and cost-effectiveness of B4DT, compared to gold-standard.
To summarize: Exciting things ahead, and welcome to the group, Max!
Rücklab - Psychiatry research at Karolinska Institutet 