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Cognitive behavioral therapy of childhood OCDJ Piacentini
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine, USA
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 8:599-616. 1999..More study is needed to evaluate the best use of medication and CBT in children and adolescents...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder in childrenJ Piacentini
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, USA
Psychiatr Clin North Am 23:519-33. 2000..Nevertheless, CBT and SSRI therapy have been shown to be effective and well-tolerated therapies for children with OCD...
Recognizing and treating childhood anxiety disordersJohn Piacentini
University of California Los Angeles, UCLA-NPI, Room 68-251, 760 Westwood Plaza, 90024, USA
West J Med 176:149-51. 2002
Open trial of cognitive behavior therapy for childhood obsessive-compulsive disorderJohn Piacentini
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Anxiety Disord 16:207-19. 2002..Controlled trials are needed to provide a more rigorous test of this treatment approach and provide better information regarding potential mediators and moderators of outcome...
Functional impairment in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorderJohn Piacentini
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 13:S61-9. 2003..Given the adverse developmental consequences of psychosocial dysfunction, treatment studies need to carefully track and address OCD-specific functional impairments in affected youngsters...
Homeobox genes in obsessive-compulsive disorderG Nestadt
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 159:53-60. 2012..The OCD Collaborative Genetics Study (OCGS) has identified several OCD susceptibility loci through linkage analysis...
A screen of SLC1A1 for OCD-related allelesY Wang
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 153:675-9. 2010..Further investigation of this variant is necessary to determine whether and how it is related to OCD. There was no other evidence of significant accumulation of deleterious coding mutations in SLC1A1 in the OCD cases...
Gender differences in genetic linkage and association on 11p15 in obsessive-compulsive disorder familiesY Wang
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 150:33-40. 2009..No SNP showed significant association with the OCD phenotype only in the families with a female proband. The results suggest a possible gender effect in the etiology of OCD...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder: subclassification based on co-morbidityG Nestadt
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Psychol Med 39:1491-501. 2009..Many patients manifest other psychiatric syndromes. This study investigated the relationship between OCD and co-morbid conditions to identify subtypes...
The 18-month impact of an emergency room intervention for adolescent female suicide attemptersM J Rotheram-Borus
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles 90024, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 68:1081-93. 2000..Specialized ER interventions may have substantial and sustained impact over time, particularly for the parents of youth with high psychiatric symptomatology...
Association of SLC6A4 variants with obsessive-compulsive disorder in a large multicenter US family studyE Voyiaziakis
Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Mol Psychiatry 16:108-20. 2011..A noteworthy lack of association at the LPR, LPR-rs25531 and rare 425V variants suggests that hypotheses about OCD risk need revision to accommodate these new findings, including a possible gender effect...
Genomewide linkage scan for obsessive-compulsive disorder: evidence for susceptibility loci on chromosomes 3q, 7p, 1q, 15q, and 6qY Y Shugart
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Mol Psychiatry 11:763-70. 2006..Given probable etiologic heterogeneity in OCD, mapping gene(s) involved in the disorder may be enhanced by replication studies, large-scale family-based linkage studies, and the application of novel statistical methods...
