Neuropsychological sequelae in Kleine-Levin syndrome: case reportL Fontenelle
Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Arq Neuropsiquiatr 58:531-4. 2000
..Further research in the natural history of Kleine-Levin syndrome is needed, for example, to determine whether early intervention would improve long-term prognosis...
- Psychiatric comorbidity in a Brazilian sample of patients with binge-eating disorder
Leonardo F Fontenelle
The Obesity and Eating Disorders Group, State Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology of Rio de Janeiro and Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro IPUB UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Psychiatry Res 119:189-94. 2003
..Similar to patients from developed countries, Brazilian patients with BED display increased rates of psychiatric comorbidity, particularly mood and anxiety disorders...
- Early- and late-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder in adult patients: an exploratory clinical and therapeutic study
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro IPUB UFRJ, Brazil
J Psychiatr Res 37:127-33. 2003
..However, no significant differences between groups were noted in the final treatment outcome. Our results are consistent with previous studies suggesting that EOCD may represent a more severe subtype of this disorder...
- The man with the purple nostrils: a case of rhinotrichotillomania secondary to body dysmorphic disorder
L F Fontenelle
The Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro IPUB UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Acta Psychiatr Scand 106:464-6; discussion 466. 2002
..To describe a different type of self-injurious behavior that may be secondary to body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)...
- Comparison of symptom profiles of obese binge eaters, obese non-binge eaters, and patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IPUB/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
J Nerv Ment Dis 190:643-6. 2002
- Impaired set-shifting ability and therapeutic response in obsessive-compulsive disorder
L Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro IPUB UFRJ, Brazil
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 13:508-10. 2001
..A clear relationship was found between impaired performance on two Wisconsin Card Sorting subtests (categories completed and perseverative errors) and positive treatment response...
- Trans-cultural aspects of obsessive-compulsive disorder: a description of a Brazilian sample and a systematic review of international clinical studies
Leonardo F Fontenelle
The Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro IPUB UFRJ, Rupa Lopes Trovão, 88, apt, 1501, Bloco A, Icarai, Niteroi, RJ, CEP 24220 071, Brazil
J Psychiatr Res 38:403-11. 2004
..The core features of OCD are probably relatively independent of cultural variations. The sole exception to this rule seems to be the content of the obsessions, in which cultural factors may play a significant role...
- The descriptive epidemiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro IPUB UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 30:327-37. 2006
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- Clinical subtypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder based on the presence of checking and washing compulsions
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Institute of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Rev Bras Psiquiatr 27:201-7. 2005
..We aimed at examining the utility of checking and washing compulsions as markers of valid subtypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)...
- The problem of delusional ugliness: is it really body dysmorphic disorder?
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
World J Biol Psychiatry 7:110-5. 2006
..Future studies are urgently needed in order to substantiate our judgement regarding the existence of diagnostic limits between delusional BDD and DDST with dysmorphic delusions...
- Clinical features associated to refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder
Ygor A Ferrão
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
J Affect Disord 94:199-209. 2006
..The clinical variables associated with treatment-refractoriness in OCD are inconsistently described in the literature...
- A sociodemographic, phenomenological, and long-term follow-up study of patients with body dysmorphic disorder in Brazil
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Int J Psychiatry Med 36:243-59. 2006
..In this non-controlled study, our objective was to describe the socio-demographic, phenomenological, and long-term outcome features of a Brazilian sample of patients with BDD...
- Catatonia in obsessive-compulsive disorder: etiopathogenesis, differential diagnosis, and clinical management
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal of Rio de Janeiro IPUB UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cogn Behav Neurol 20:21-4. 2007
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- Sexual function and dysfunction in Brazilian patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and social anxiety disorder
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
J Nerv Ment Dis 195:254-7. 2007
..Male patients with SAD reported not using contraceptive methods significantly more frequently than male patients with OCD (p = 0.007). Patients with OCD and patients with SAD exhibit different profiles of sexual behavior...
- Auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory, and bodily hallucinations in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Institute of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
CNS Spectr 13:125-30. 2008
..Further psychopathological research should clarify the clinical significance of hallucinations among patients with OCD...
- Obsessions with aggressive content emerging during the course of panic disorder: a different subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Institute of Psychiatry of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro IPUB UFRJ, Icaraí Niterói RJ, Brazil
Int Clin Psychopharmacol 20:343-6. 2005
..Our cases suggest that patients with OCD should be probed for an underlying panic disorder. This 'panic disorder-related subtype of OCD' may be associated with an excellent treatment response and increased rates of remission...
- Topiramate use in obese patients with binge eating disorder: an open study
Jose C Appolinario
Obesity and Eating Disorders Group, Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro IPUB UFRJ, State Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology of Rio de Janeiro IEDE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Can J Psychiatry 47:271-3. 2002
..To assess topiramate's efficacy and tolerability in a group of obese binge eaters with no neuropsychiatric comorbidity...
- Early-onset social anxiety disorder in adults: clinical and therapeutic features
Gabriela Bezerra de Menezes
Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rev Bras Psiquiatr 27:32-6. 2005
..To investigate possible differences in clinical and treatment response in patients suffering from early-onset (< 18 years) and late-onset (> or =18 years) social anxiety disorder...
- Impulse control disorders in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 59:30-7. 2005
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- Treatment-response by age at onset in obsessive-compulsive disorder
Leonardo F Fontenelle
J Affect Disord 83:283-4. 2004
- Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and hoarding symptoms: a distinctive clinical subtype?
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry of the Federal University of Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Compr Psychiatry 45:375-83. 2004
..It remains to be investigated whether these phenotypical characteristics are underlined by specific neurobiological mechanisms...
- An open-label trial of sibutramine in obese patients with binge-eating disorder
Jose C Appolinario
Obesity and Eating Disorders Group, Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
J Clin Psychiatry 63:28-30. 2002
..The objective of this article is to present data from an open-label study of the efficacy and tolerability of sibutramine in a group of obese binge eaters...
- The analytical epidemiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder: risk factors and correlates
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 32:1-15. 2008
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- [Cognitive-behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a systematic review of the last decade]
Angélica Marques Prazeres
Programa de Pesquisa em Ansiedade e Depressão, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Rev Bras Psiquiatr 29:262-70. 2007
..To perform a systematic review of controlled trials and meta-analysis that involved cognitive and/or behavioral treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder...
- [Treatment-resistant anxiety disorders: social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder]
Gabriela Bezerra de Menezes
Programa de Ansiedade e Depressao, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Rev Bras Psiquiatr 29:S55-60. 2007
..The objective of this study is to review aspects related to treatment resistance and pharmacological strategies to deal with anxiety disorders resistant to treatment...
- Diogenes syndrome in a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder without hoarding
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Universidade Federal Fluminense MSM UFF, Niteroi, RJ, Brazil
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 30:288-90. 2008
..We suggest that hoarding may be a symptom of the conditions that are frequently comorbid with DS, but is not one of its fundamental features...
- The Wernicke-Kleist-Leonhard "short-circuiting": a missing link between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Tourette syndrome, and obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil
Med Hypotheses 71:418-25. 2008
..A resurgence of the interest on the descriptive psychopathology of the WKL short-circuit movements could provide a new conceptual framework for the studies on the neurobiology of volitional disorders...
- Antibasal ganglia antibodies, immunomodulation, and antibiotics in "poststreptococcal" adult neuropsychiatric disorders: not yet ready for "prime time"
Antonio L Teixeira
Cogn Behav Neurol 21:124-5. 2008
- Low-resolution electromagnetic tomography and treatment response in obsessive-compulsive disorder
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Programme, Institute of Psychiatry of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro IPUB UFRJ, Brazil
Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 9:89-94. 2006
..002) and the medial frontal gyrus (BA 10) (p = 0.002), suggesting that a distinctive pattern of activity within the medial surface of the frontal lobe predicts therapeutic response in OCD...
- History of trauma and dissociative symptoms among patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and social anxiety disorder
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro IPUB UFRJ, Rua Otávio Carneiro, 93 601 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Psychiatr Q 78:241-50. 2007
..Patients with OCD are probably less vulnerable to some types of traumatic experiences. Dissociative symptoms may cut across different anxiety disorders...
- An update on the pharmacological treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal of Rio de Janeiro IPUB UFRJ, Icarai, Niteroi, RJ, Brazil
Expert Opin Pharmacother 8:563-83. 2007
..Independent studies are urgently needed to help identify the most promising drug treatment sequences for OCD...
- Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) displayed cognitive deficits consistent with a dysfunction of the dorsolateral-striatal circuit
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Psychol Med 34:181; author reply 181-3. 2004
- Treatment of juvenile Parkinson disease and the recurrent emergence of pathologic gambling
Rafael Ferreira Garcia
Programa de Ansiedade e Depressão do Instituto de Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro IPUB UFRJ, Brazil
Cogn Behav Neurol 20:11-4. 2007
..To describe the recurrent emergence of pathologic gambling (PG) during the sequential treatment of a patient with Juvenile Parkinson disease (PD) with different dopamine agonists...
- Absence of dementia in late-onset schizophrenia: a one year follow-up of a Brazilian case series
Jerson Laks
Center for Alzheimer s Disease and Related Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Arq Neuropsiquiatr 64:946-9. 2006
..Cognitive deficits of late-onset schizophrenia (LOS) patients have been reported as stable, although some prospective studies show that a sub-group develop a significant cognitive decline. Data on LOS from developing countries are scarce...
- Asperger Syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and major depression in a patient with 45,X/46,XY mosaicism
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Psychopathology 37:105-9. 2004
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- Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) displayed cognitive deficits consistent with a dysfunction of the dorsolateral-striatal circuit
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Psychol Med 34:1367-8; author reply 1368-9. 2004
- Citalopram plus reboxetine in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder
Leonardo F Fontenelle
Anxiety and Depression Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
World J Biol Psychiatry 6:57-9. 2005
..This report suggests that future studies accessing the efficacy of the SRI SNRI combination in treatment resistant OCD are needed...
- Treatment-resistant self-mutilation, tics, and obsessive-compulsive disorder in neuroacanthocytosis: a mouth guard as a therapeutic approach
Leonardo F Fontenelle
J Clin Psychiatry 69:1186-7. 2008
