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Phenomenological differences appearing with repetitive behaviours in obsessive-compulsive disorder and Gilles de la Tourette's syndromeE C Miguel
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Brazil
Br J Psychiatry 170:140-5. 1997..This is a phenomenological study designed to investigate the nature of these possible OCD subtypes and the relationship between OCD and GTS...
Sensory phenomena in obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette's disorderE C Miguel
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, SP, Brazil
J Clin Psychiatry 61:150-6; quiz 157. 2000....
Obsessive-compulsive disorder phenotypes: implications for genetic studiesE C Miguel
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Rua Dr Ovidio Pires de Campos, S N, 05403 010, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Mol Psychiatry 10:258-75. 2005..To conclude, we discuss the variability in treatment outcome and the significance of the development of specific pharmacological and/or behavioral based therapies tailored to each of these phenotypes...
How to treat OCD in patients with Tourette syndromeEuripedes C Miguel
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
J Psychosom Res 55:49-57. 2003..In addition, new therapies are now being tested against presumed postinfectious autoimmune processes. Finally, new developments are promising in neural circuit-based therapies, including neurosurgery for refractory patients...
Clinical features associated with treatment response in obsessive-compulsive disorderRoseli G Shavitt
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Caixa Postal 8091, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Compr Psychiatry 47:276-81. 2006....
Level of insight and clinical features of obsessive-compulsive disorder with and without body dysmorphic disorderAna Cristina Gargano Nakata
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
CNS Spectr 12:295-303. 2007..However, the content of preoccupations and level of insight of BDD patients differ from OCD patients...
Anxiety disorders and rheumatic Fever: is there an association?A Augusto Anderson Seixas
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Brazil
CNS Spectr 13:1039-46. 2008..Findings suggest that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders, referred to as obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (OCSDs), are more common in patients with rheumatic fever (RF)...
Chronic tics and Tourette syndrome in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorderJuliana B Diniz
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, R Dr Ovideo Pires de Campos, 785, 4degrees andar sala 3, Sao Paulo, SP 05403 010, Brazil
J Psychiatr Res 40:487-93. 2006..Our results suggest that there are qualitative and quantitative differences in the phenotypic expression of tic disorders in OCD patients, depending on whether the subject has TS or only CMVT...
Higher prevalence of obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders in rheumatic feverPedro Gomes de Alvarenga
Department and Institute of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 31:178-80. 2009..This study aims to compare the prevalence of obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (OCSD) in psychiatric outpatients with and without a history of rheumatic fever (RF)...
Alcohol use disorders in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: the importance of appropriate dual-diagnosisAndré F Gentil
Department and Institute of Psychiatry, Clinical Hospital, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, R Dr Ovidio Pires de Campos, 485, 3o andar, CEAPESQ, sala 7, CEP 05403 010, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Drug Alcohol Depend 100:173-7. 2009..To evaluate the prevalence and clinical associated factors of alcohol use disorders (AUD) comorbidity in a large clinical sample of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)...
Impact of age at onset and duration of illness on the expression of comorbidities in obsessive-compulsive disorderJuliana B Diniz
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
J Clin Psychiatry 65:22-7. 2004..The present report verifies how age at onset of obsessive-compulsive symptoms and duration of illness are associated with comorbid diagnoses in OCD patients...
Suicidality in obsessive-compulsive disorder: prevalence and relation to symptom dimensions and comorbid conditionsAlbina R Torres
Departamento de Neurologia, Psicologia e Psiquiatria, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, University Estadual Paulista UNESP, Distrito de Rubião Jr, 18618 970, Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
J Clin Psychiatry 72:17-26; quiz 119-20. 2011..Suicidal thoughts and behaviors, also known as suicidality, are a fairly neglected area of study in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)...
Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in heart disease patients with and without history of rheumatic feverPedro G Alvarenga
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 18:405-8. 2006..This suggests that rheumatic fever activity is not a necessary condition for the expression of neuropsychiatric symptoms...
Obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions correlate to specific gray matter volumes in treatment-naïve patientsPedro G Alvarenga
Department and Institute of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
J Psychiatr Res 46:1635-42. 2012..Despite their relevant contribution, some methodological limitations, such as patient's previous medication intake, may have contributed to inconsistent findings...
Clinical features associated to refractory obsessive-compulsive disorderYgor 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...
Sensory phenomena in obsessive-compulsive disorder and tic disorders: a review of the literatureHelena S Prado
Department of Psychiatry at the University of São Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
CNS Spectr 13:425-32. 2008..This lack of consensus may hinder the understanding of study results and prevents the possibility of including them in the search for etiological factors associated with OCD and TS...
Obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders in rheumatic fever patientsMarcos T Mercadante
Department of Psychiatry, Sao Paulo University Medical School, R Dr Ovidio Pires de Campos, s n sala 4025, 05403 05010, Sao Paulo SP, Brazil
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 17:544-7. 2005....
Tourette's SyndromeRoseli Gedanke Shavitt
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Rua Dr Ovidio Pires de Campos, Sao Paulo 05430 010, Brazil
Psychiatr Clin North Am 29:471-86. 2006..Despite important advances, re-search is needed to clarify further the biologic and behavioral aspects of TS and its relationship with the frequently associated conditions, with particular attention to their management and prognosis...
Prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal risk factors in obsessive-compulsive disorderMarcos Salem Vasconcelos
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, OCD Spectrum Disorders Program PROTOC, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Biol Psychiatry 61:301-7. 2007..The etiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) remains unknown, although it is thought to involve an interaction of genetic and environmental factors. This study aimed to identify prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal risk factors in OCD...
What is the optimal way to subdivide obsessive-compulsive disorder?Maria Alice de Mathis
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Brazil
CNS Spectr 11:762-8, 771-4, 776-9. 2006....
Obsessive-compulsive symptoms, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and related disorders in Parkinson's diseaseAlex F Maia
Department of Psychiatry, , , Brazil
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 15:371-4. 2003..These findings suggest that the right hemisphere likely functions in the expression of OCS...
Neuropsychological predictors of response to randomized treatment in obsessive-compulsive disorderCarina C D'Alcante
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Spectrum Project Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil Electronic address
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 39:310-7. 2012..To identify neuropsychological predictors of treatment response to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and fluoxetine in treatment-naïve adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)...
The psychiatric symptoms of rheumatic feverM T Mercadante
Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Am J Psychiatry 157:2036-8. 2000..This study examined the frequency and age at onset of psychiatric disorders among children with rheumatic fever, Sydenham's chorea, or both and a comparison group...
Effects of childhood development on late-life mental disordersGiovanni A Salum
aNational Institute for Developmental Psychiatry for Childhood and Adolescence INCT CNPq, Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Curr Opin Psychiatry 23:498-503. 2010..To explore recent findings bridging childhood development and common late-life mental disorders in the elderly...
Regional gray matter abnormalities in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a voxel-based morphometry studyAntonio A Valente
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, , Brazil
Biol Psychiatry 58:479-87. 2005....
[Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: a clinical study on 58 cases]C H Fen
, , Faculdade de Medicina, , , SP, Brasil
Arq Neuropsiquiatr 59:729-32. 2001..Associated manifestations, such as attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder were present in 25.8% and 39.6%, respectively. Sensory phenomena were present in 54.8% of the patients...
Adults with early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorderM C Rosario-Campos
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Brazil
Am J Psychiatry 158:1899-903. 2001..Therefore, the authors compared adult OCD patients with an early symptom onset to OCD patients with a later symptom onset...
The Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DY-BOCS): an instrument for assessing obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensionsM C Rosario-Campos
Department of Psychiatry, , , Brazil
Mol Psychiatry 11:495-504. 2006....
OCD and transvestism: is there a relationship?C H Abdo
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Acta Psychiatr Scand 103:471-3; discussion 473. 2001..Method: Longitudinal case studies of two patients with OCD and tranvestism according to the DSM-IV were assessed using semi-structured interviews...
Quetiapine versus clomipramine in the augmentation of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: a randomized, open-label trialJ B Diniz
Department and Institute of Psychiatry, Clinical Hospital, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
J Psychopharmacol 24:297-307. 2010..Clomipramine augmentation did not produce a significant reduction in Y-BOCS scores. Higher target maximum dosages might have yielded different results...
Regional cerebral blood flow abnormalities in early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder: an exploratory SPECT studyG F Busatto
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Brazil
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 40:347-54. 2001..The regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) technique was used to investigate whether the pathophysiology of OCD differs between early- and late-onset OCD subjects...
A voxel-based investigation of regional cerebral blood flow abnormalities in obsessive-compulsive disorder using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)G F Busatto
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Rua Ovidio Pires Campos s n, CEP 05403 010, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Psychiatry Res 99:15-27. 2000..With the incorporation of voxel-based methods and the use of large patient samples, rCBF-SPECT studies may continue to provide valuable information about the functional anatomy of OCD...
Association analysis of the catechol-o-methyltransferase (COMT), serotonin transporter (5-HTT) and serotonin 2A receptor (5HT2A) gene polymorphisms with obsessive-compulsive disorderI Meira-Lima
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Genes Brain Behav 3:75-9. 2004..The results suggest that the C516T variant of the 5HT2A gene may be one of the genetic risk factors for OCD in our sample. However, further studies using larger samples and family based methods are recommended to confirm these findings...
