Treatment of obsessive-compulsive-bipolar comorbidity is relatively challenging. This case report presents the improvement of both obsessive-compulsive and mood symptoms in a female patient treated with risperidone plus valproate. Her obsessivecompulsive and manic symptoms, as assessed respectively by using The Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) and Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS), ...

Objective: The present study was designed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the ObsessiveCompulsive Inventory – Revised. Method: The Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory – Revised was administered toa total of 260 participants: a clinical sample of 130 patients with anxiety disorders (64 with a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder patients, 33 diagno...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to evaluate behavior and cognition in a consecutive series of patients who developed obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) after suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI). BACKGROUND Because OCD is a rare sequelae of TBI, the phenomenology of obsessions and compulsions, the comorbid psychiatric disorders, the performance on cognitive tests, and the neural cor...

Neuroscience presents great challenges and opportunities for psychotherapy. This article proposes recommendations and avenues for practice. Neurological knowledge is being employed in psychotherapy in three broad ways. First, it is used to explain and justify existing practices in psychotherapy, (e.g., the neuropsychoanalysis of Mark Solms). Second, neural localization studies are used to devis...

Background & Aims: Metacognition is considered as an important factor in the genesis and continuation of various psychological disorders, particularly obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression. The aim of this study was comparison of Metacognitive beliefs in Major depression disorder (MDD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and healthy groups. Methods: A total of 50 depressive patients...

Objective: sleep disturbances are frequently undiagnosed in patients with mental disorders. the aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of sleep disturbances in a sample of treatment-seeking patients with obsessivecompulsive disorder (ocd). Method: a total of 123 patients were screened, of whom 63 met diagnostic criteria for ocd and were further assessed with measures of slee...

Background. Impairments of neurocognitive performance in female pa tients with anorexia nervosa have been reported in many studies. To our know ledge neuropsychological studies of male eating disorder patients remain rare. The goals of our study were to present the profile of neurocognitive functioning in a male adolescent anorexia nervosa patient and, given that the clinical manifestation of b...

In the 1950”s, Professor Lars Leksell of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden coined the term “radiosurgery” to define a neurosurgical procedure that combined precision targeting with a large number of cross-fired beams of ionizing radiation. By directing a very large dose of highly collimated radiation at a discrete location in the brain, the objective of Leksell’s operation was to make a lesion...