On May 27 a Karolinska OCD Master Class will be held:
Buried in Treasures: The Nature and Treatment of Hoarding Disorder by Dr David Tolin, Director, The Institute of Living and Adjunct Associate Professor at Yale University. Dr Tolin is well known for his research on OCD and Hoarding and has was the host of the TV series “The OCD project”. Registration and more info http://bit.ly/WEB7JI
En ny artikelserie om OCD startar i Svenska Dagbladet idag. Läs en intervju med Christian Rück om tvång här. Bland annat tas de lovande resultaten av internetbehandling för OCD upp.
Vår informationssida tvångssyndrom.se riktad till allmänheten om Tvångsyndrom (OCD) och likande tillstånd har uppdaterats. Kolla in!
Det är inte ovanligt att må dåligt över sitt utseende, men ibland kan man bli så upptagen vid ett upplevt fel att det leder till ångest och nedsatt förmåga att arbeta eller umgås. En person med dysmorfofobi (även kallat Body Dysmorphic Disorder, BDD) besväras av återkommande och påträngande tankar om att något är fel med utseendet, trots försäkringar från andra om att så inte är fallet. Ofta försöker man dölja eller kontrollera den del av utseendet som man inte är nöjd med.
Vid Karolinska Institutet genomförs just nu en studie där vi testar Internetförmedlad KBT för att minska det lidande som är personer med ett starkt missnöje över sitt utseende upplever.
Studien är tillgänglig för personer med dysmorfofobi. Du måste vara minst 18 år. Deltagandet är gratis. Behandlingen sköter du via dator.
Läs mer om studien och gör en intresseanmälan genom att klicka HÄR
Fabian Lenhard
Fabian Lenhard passed his admission seminar to become a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet. Congrats! His main supervisor is Eva Serlachius, David Mataix-Cols and Christian Rück are his co-supervisors. Fabian has just started the pilot study on internet-based CBT for OCD for 12-17 year olds. For more info (in Swedish) click here.
For the first time we managed to take a picture of all of us together.
From left: Fabian Lenhard, Volen Ivanov, Christian Rück, Evelyn Andersson, Johan Larsson, Erik Andersson, Jesper Enander, Diana Radu. Photo: Lina Lundström.
Last night, Rucklab students Gustaf Brander and Per Söderholm won the Swedish Association for Behavior Therapy award for “best master thesis” at the annual meeting in Uppsala. Gustaf and Per are Stockholm University psychology students under the supervision of Jan Bergström. Gustaf and Per have conducted a long-term follow-up for OCD patients treated with iCBT. Congratulations Per and Gustaf, we´re very proud of this achievement! This is the third time Rucklab students have received this award. Maybe they should nominate themselves for our own student award?
Volen Ivanov i SvD mfl om patologiskt samlande /hoarding
Our own Volen Ivanov in various Swedish newpapers on Hoarding coming to DSM 5. Nice that the work done by Swedish housing organisation HSB is highlighted.
One of the leading OCD researchers, Professor David Mataix-Cols, now at King’s College London will be moving to Karolinska Institutet in November this year to join forces with us.
Very welcome, David!
Pictures from yesterdays meeting for everyone involved in our study of d-cycloserine in OCD, our biggest undertaking so far. 
Erik Andersson has been awarded a grant from the Bror Gadelius memorial fund for our D-cycloserine study in OCD. Who was Bror Gadelius? Well, for someone working on a thesis on OCD like Erik Andersson it is interesting to know that Bror Gadelius, once a leading Swedish psychiatrist born in 1862 wrote his thesis on obsessions (Om Tvångstankar och dermed beslägtade fenomen) in 1896. Gadelius became a professor at Karolinska Institutet in 1903 and worked hard to reform mental health care including bringing psychiatric wards to the main hospitals instead of more remote asylums.
Blue heart = OK.
Alexandra Tylec, Monica Hellberg and Nils Lindefors.
Our new Thermo Scientific Formas 88000 series freezer entered service yesterday with Prof Nils Lindefors cutting the red ribbon. The freezer now contains DNA of about 1500 individuals treated with internetbased-CBT and to a lesser extent RNA and plasma.
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Rücklab’s Evelyn Andersson visited Department of Psychiatry at UCSD last week who hosts prominent researchers such as prof. Hagop Akiskal, famous for his extensive work on mood disorders and prof. John Kelsoe, a pioneer in investigating molecular genetics and bipolar disorder for over 20 years.
The lovely Paula Smith at UCSD guiding us around the lab.
Post docs MJ and Bahou focuses on molecular genetics in schizofrenic mice and they showed us their well organized wet lab.
USCD campus
A new paper is out using Swedish multigenerational register data showing that the risk for OCD among relatives of OCD probands increased proportionally to the degree of genetic relatedness. Also, partners of people diagnosed with OCD were more likely to have OCD.
David Mataix-Cols, PhD; Marcus Boman, BSc; Benedetta Monzani, MSc; Christian Rück, MD; Eva Serlachius, MD; Niklas Långström, MD; Paul Lichtenstein, PhD. Population-Based, Multigenerational Family Clustering Study of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. JAMA Psychiatry. 2013;():1-9.
http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1689532
Volen posing outside Columbia Univeristy,New York State Psychiatric Institute, encouraging you not to smoke
This week, Volen Ivanov vistited Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute to meet with some of Rücklabs favourite OCD researchers and present some of our lab’s recent work on Hoarding Disorder. Big thanks to Dr. Carolyn Rodriguez and Dr. Helen Blair Simpson for having him over! Follow us on Rücklab for some very interesting podcasts on OCD and related disorders coming out soon!
In a new study that is just out in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, researchers led by Brjánn Ljótsson studied how different possible mechanisms of CBT contributed to its efficacy in Irritable Bowel Syndrome. We used parallel process growth mediational analyses (!) to study weekly ratings of gastrointestinal symptom-specific anxiety (GSA) and stress reactivity. Results showed that only GSA displayed a pattern consistent with a causal model in which change in process preceded and contributed to symptom change.
Proud first author Brjánn Ljótsson
In this episode Dr. Rodriguez from Columbia University discusses her research and takes us through how Hoarding Disorder could lead to serious housing problems and how clinicians and others involved can approach this problem.
It has been a while since we posted a podcast but during the next couple of weeks we will have several new ones out, so keep following us!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dSua5XKhlQ
Summer has arrived which for many means vacation time. Hopefully this also entails greater possibilites for listening to our podcasts. In this episode Dr. Anthony Pinto provides a very clear overview of the somewhat overlooked Obsessive Compulisve Personality Disorder. Dr. Pinto provides details about how it can be distinguished form other related disorders and also, on the treatment of this impairing personality disorder. Enjoy it in your hammock or on the beach!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwIAy5AULYs
