Iconocast Logo

Welcome To Iconocast

How to add a URL link from your web site to the Iconocast web sites

Virtual tour of Southern California
blank

 

Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: obsessive-compulsive disorder + obsessive compulsive + help  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/5/2008)

Phenomenology of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Patients with ...
Journal of Neuropsychiatry (subscription) - May 1, 2008
The neurobiology of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) implies a dysfunction in frontostriatal and amygdala-cingulate networks. ...

GNIF Brain Blogger
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The Mind/Body Connection
GNIF Brain Blogger, CA -
They included all anxiety disorders such as agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and panic disorder. Their results thus far show an increased rate of ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Rotten truth about our forgotten old folk
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia -
... Professor Snowdon found, and a few had obsessive-compulsive disorder that led them to hoard anything from lawn mowers to pizza cartons. ...

Moreland Leader
Oak Park boys faces a tough battle
Moreland Leader, Australia -
Like many with the condition, Ben also suffers from attention-deficit disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, behaviour problems and audio processing ...
A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Metapsychology, NY - Apr 15, 2008
... "Doubt" with a capital D. Bell suffers from severe Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), a potentially debilitating form of mental illness. ...
Support groups
GoErie.com, PA -
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Support Group meets first Thursday, 6:30 to 7:30 pm, Safe Harbor Behavioral Health, 1330 W. 26th St.; professionally assisted ...
China Bans Irreversible Brain Procedure
Wall Street Journal - Apr 27, 2008
Thousands of patients have been operated on for psychological conditions including obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression and schizophrenia. ...
Running on courage
Santa Rosa Press Democrat, CA - May 4, 2008
Obsessive-compulsive about her eating while continuing her 100-mile a week running regime, Sump-ter ended her self-description by saying, "I have a fear of ...
Old antibiotic offers range of new uses
Baltimore Sun, United States - Apr 12, 2008
Since then, other studies have shown that D-cycloserine can also help with social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Two months ago, largely for his ...
Dr. Elias Aboujaoude
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Apr 25, 2008
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by anxiety-laden intrusive thoughts and accompanying repetitive behaviors that are meant to reduce the ...
Source: Google News

The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale. I. Development, use, and reliability -
WK Goodman, LH Price, SA Rasmussen, C Mazure, RL … - Archives of General Psychiatry, 1989 - Am Med Assoc
... Significant Linkage to Compulsive Hoarding on Chromosome 14 ... of computer-aided
self-help for anxiety ... to Paroxetine in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Versus Major ...

… glucose metabolic rate changes with both drug and behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder -
LR Baxter, JM Schwartz, KS Bergman, MP Szuba, BH … - Archives of General Psychiatry, 1992 - Am Med Assoc
... Altered cortical excitability in obsessive-compulsive disorder Greenberg et al. ... Friday
the 13th and obsessive compulsive disorder Veale BMJ 1995;311:963-964. ...

… of Risperidone Addition in Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor-Refractory Obsessive-compulsive Disorder -
CJ McDougle, CN Epperson, GH Pelton, S Wasylink, … - Archives of General Psychiatry, 2000 - Am Med Assoc
... A Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of Risperidone Addition in Serotonin
Reuptake Inhibitor?Refractory Obsessive-compulsive Disorder ...

The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale. II. Validity -
WK Goodman, LH Price, SA Rasmussen, C Mazure, P … - Archives of General Psychiatry, 1989 - Am Med Assoc
... Prader--Willi syndrome, compulsive and ritualistic behaviours: the first ... Symptom
Stability in Adult Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Data From a Naturalistic Two ...

The epidemiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder in five US communities -
M Karno, JM Golding, SB Sorenson, MA Burnam - Archives of General Psychiatry, 1988 - Am Med Assoc
... Comorbidity, Impact, and Help-Seeking in ... on the Maudsley Obsessional Compulsive
Inventory Thomas ... The Natural History of Obsessive-compulsive Disorder Price et ...

Action-Monitoring Dysfunction in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -
WJ Gehring, J Himle, LG Nisenson - Psychological Science, 2000 - Blackwell Synergy
... shown how it can help to build a ... dysfunction as a proposed cause of obsessive-
compulsive disorder. ... Obsessional experience and compulsive behaviour: A cognitive ...

Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
GS Steketee, P Nishith - Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 1995 - ingentaconnect.com
... a resource tool for the behavioral treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
It has been designed for use in conjunction with the self-help book, "When ...
-

… diagnoses on treatment outcome with clomipramine in 55 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder -
L Baer, MA Jenike, DW Black, C Treece, R Rosenfeld … - Archives of General Psychiatry, 1992 - Am Med Assoc
... Effect of axis II diagnoses on treatment outcome with clomipramine in 55
patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. L. Baer, MA ...

Haloperidol addition in fluvoxamine-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder. A double-blind, … -
CJ McDougle, WK Goodman, JF Leckman, NC Lee, GR … - Archives of General Psychiatry, 1994 - Am Med Assoc
... ARTICLES. A review of antipsychotics in the treatment of obsessive compulsive
disorder Fineberg et al. J Psychopharmacol 2006;20:97-103. ...

A family study of obsessive-compulsive disorder. -
DL Pauls, JP Alsobrook 2nd, W Goodman, S Rasmussen … - Am J Psychiatry, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Click here to read A family study of obsessive-compulsive disorder. ... CONCLUSIONS:
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a heterogeneous condition. ...

Source: Google Scholar

Medication Identified To Help Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Sufferers May Also Help Smokers To Quit
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have found that a drug originally developed to fight tuberculosis may help people with obsessive-compulsive disorder make more progress in therapy sessions.

Now they want to see if this drug could have a similar effect on people who want to quit smoking.

The research, led by Matt Kushner, Ph.D., was published in the online edition of Biological Psychiatry, and will appear in an upcoming print edition. Kushner's collaborators include Suck Won Kim, M.D., and Christopher Donahue, Ph.D.
The drug, D-Cycloserine, is believed to help accelerate "extinction learning." On a basic level, people associate positive or negative feelings with various cues from the external world. Behavioral therapy attempts to help the person disassociate problematic reactions that are either positive (e.g., craving to use an addictive substance) or negative (e.g., fear of some catastrophic outcome) from the cues that trigger these feelings.

"This offers another therapeutic approach where we can attempt to manipulate the memory process and the brain's reward/punishment system so people can learn healthier responses to various cues," Kushner said.

For example, a person with OCD may have negative feelings before or after touching a doorknob. In psychotherapy, the person would work on disassociating the negative feeling with the external cue of seeing or touching a doorknob.

In this research project, investigators separated the people with OCD into two groups. One group received the drug and another received a placebo several hours before psychotherapy.

Kushner found that those who took the drug made progress in therapy more quickly and were less likely to quit therapy compared with the placebo group. The research subjects who took the drug reported feeling less distress or anxiety due to their obsessions or compulsions. The drug seemed to be most effective in the first few therapy sessions.

Over time, people in the placebo group could catch up in terms of therapy goals, but more study participants in the placebo group dropped out of therapy. "The dropout rate decreased dramatically," Kushner said. "Typically about 20 to 30 percent of people with OCD drop out of therapy. Only 7 percent of people who took the D-Cycloserine dropped out."

Kushner said that the drug will not work by itself; it must be done in conjunction with therapy to be effective.
Kushner and his team are now studying how the drug will effect smokers' who want to quit, and they are seeking smokers to participate in a research study. "People who smoke have positive feelings from the drug effects of nicotine associated with exposure to cues of smoking, such as seeing a pack of cigarettes, lighting up, or actually smoking," Kushner said. "This research project investigates whether or not we will see a similar extinction learning effect in people who smoke."

Study participants will be given nicotine-extracted cigarettes to smoke, and similar to the previous study, one group will receive the drug, another the placebo, prior to therapy sessions. Participants will attend sessions once per week for four weeks, and they will be asked to smoke only the nicotine-extracted cigarettes in between the sessions.

The research is funded through grants from the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation and the Minnesota Medical Foundation.

The Academic Health Center is home to the University of Minnesota's six health professional schools and colleges as well as several health-related centers and institutes. Founded in 1851, the University is one of the oldest and largest land grant institutions in the country. The AHC prepares the new health professionals who improve the health of communities, discover and deliver new treatments and cures, and strengthen the health economy.

Source: Nick Hanson
University of Minnesota
 
 
Google
Web www.iconocast.com

Search inside Iconocast for the keyword you have in mind.

Iconocast has collected more than 50,000 articles and press releases on health and science.

These are current and most up to date press releases on the subject you are searching.

We collect current health and science press releases daily from more than 5000 research and health institutes. Here is an example : The elderberry way to perfect skin

We believe if you do search inside Iconocast, you will get better results than searching the web alone.

 
 
Continue News With: News5 ; News6 ; News7 ; News8 ; News9 ; News9A


ADVERTISEMENT

Iconocast is about learning and teaching without borders; we offer eMarketing, Internet Advertising, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, Online Branding, and eMarketing News Services.

 

Iconocast Home Page

Contact Iconocast

© 2003-07. ICONOCAST is a trademark of iconocast.com.