Drugs and Exposure Treatment in Phobic and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

Antidepressant drugs in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorders.

Most reports of drug treatment for obsessivecompulsive neurosis concern one tricyclic antidepressant, namely clomipramine. Early suggestions that the drug might be valuable in this condition were based on uncontrolled and/or short-term studies over only a few weeks (Fernandez and Lopez-Ibor, 1967; Beaumont, 1973; Capstick, 1975; Ananth et al., 1978). A recent controlled study with long-term fol...

Treatment of Obsessive- Compulsive and Related Disorders

Obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders

The obsessive-compulsive spectrum is an important concept referring to a number of disorders drawn from several diagnostic categories that share core obsessive-compulsive features. These disorders can be grouped by the focus of their symptoms: bodily preoccupation, impulse control, or neurological disorders. Although the disorders are clearly distinct from one another, they have intriguing simi...

Obsessive compulsive disorders in eating disorders.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to explore current and lifetime prevalence of obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD) in eating disorder (ED) subgroups and subtypes defined by the DSM-IV and to study the chronology of appearance of these disorders taking into account the role played by denutrition. METHOD Current and lifetime prevalence were investigated using the Mini International Neuropsyc...

Treating obsessive-compulsive and tic disorders.