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Ask Dr. Weil: Breathing techniques can be helpful
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Compulsive shoppers often need professional help
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Joining a support group such as Debtors' Anonymous might also help. Sometimes, compulsive shopping is coupled with a disorder such as obsessive-compulsive ...

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... Lowered activity in the brain region involved with stopping habitual behavior may help identify people at higher risk for obsessive-compulsive disorder. ...
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Toward a Neurobiology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -
AM Graybiel, SL Rauch - Neuron, 2000 - Elsevier
... behavior repeatedly in response to obsessive self-doubts ... involves obsessions as well
as compulsive actions, the ... and back to the neocortex may help to establish ...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: a Questionnaire Survey of a Self-Help Group -
RJ Hafner - International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1988 - isp.sagepub.com
... Vol. 34 No. 4, 310-315 OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER: A QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY
OF A SELF-HELP GROUP R. JULIAN HAFNER SUMMARY Ninety ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder associated with brain lesions -
ML Berthier, J Kulisevsky, A Gironell, JA Heras - Neurology, 1996 - Mass Med Soc
... should be possible to help validate these ... Obsessive-compulsive disorder associated
with brain lesions. ... Original article (Subscription may be required); Medline ...

An open trial of fluoxetine in patients with anorexia nervosa. -
WH Kaye, TE Weltzin, LK Hsu, CM Bulik - J Clin Psychiatry, 1991 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... Because anorexia nervosa shares some similarities with obsessive compulsive disorder,
we ... This open trial suggests that fluoxetine may help patients with ...

Personality disorders in obsessive compulsive disorder. -
L Baer, MA Jenike - Psychiatr Clin North Am, 1992 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... in some cases, obsessive compulsive personality disorder may ... traits (especially avoidant,
compulsive, and dependent ... These traits may help explain other proposed ...

… a sexually dimorphic effect of COMT and MAOA on genetic susceptibility to obsessive-compulsive … -
M Karayiorgou, C Sobin, ML Blundell, BL Galke, L … - Biological Psychiatry, 1999 - Elsevier
... also completed a self-report version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale
(Goodman ... vicinity of the MAO genes is in progress and may help resolve this ...

Obsessive?compulsive disorder in schizophrenia -
P Tibbo, M Kroetsch, P Chue, L Warneke - Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2000 - Elsevier
... of the functional circuits of OCD and schizophrenia may also help to explain the
actual coexistence of psychotic and obsessive?compulsive symptoms in an ...

Caudate glucose metabolic rate changes with both drug and behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive … -
LR Baxter, JM Schwartz, KS Bergman, MP Szuba, BH … - Archives of General Psychiatry, 1992 - Am Med Assoc
... A similar pattern was noted in the left hemisphere. A brain circuit involving these
brain regions may mediate obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms. ...

The parental bonding instrument -
G Parker - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 1990 - Springer
... examining factors in the child that may elicit parental ... 23:35-47 Hafner R (1988)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder: A questionnaire survey of a self-help group. ...

… and function of the orbital frontal cortex, I: anatomy, neurocircuitry; and obsessive-compulsive … -
DH Zald - Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 1996 - Am Neuropsych Assoc
... terms of how they may influence thinking about the OFC?s contribution to
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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
 
 
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