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- Bejerot, Susanne, 1955-, et al.
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Comorbidity between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and personality disorders
- 1998
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Ingår i: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. - Copenhagen, Denmark : Munksgaard Forlag. - 0001-690X .- 1600-0447. ; 97:6, s. 398-402
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aims of the present study were to examine the frequency of personality disorders in 36 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and to investigate whether patients with a coexisting personality disorder could be characterized by certain personality traits assessed by means of the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP). In total, 27 (75%) of the OCD patients fulfilled the DSM-III-R criteria for a personality disorder, and 13 patients (36%) had an obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. Subjects with a comorbid personality disorder had significantly higher scores on most of the KSP scales, including all anxiety scales, as well as scales measuring indirect aggression, irritability, guilt and detachment, whereas subjects without personality disorders did not differ significantly from healthy controls with regard to personality traits.
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- Bejerot, Susanne, 1955-, et al.
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Low prevalence of smoking among patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
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Ingår i: Comprehensive Psychiatry. - Philadelphia, USA : Saunders Elsevier. - 0010-440X .- 1532-8384. ; 40:4, s. 268-272
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Tobacco smoking is common among psychiatric patients, especially among those with schizophrenia, where the prevalence is extremely high, 74% to 88%, compared with 45% to 70% in patients with other psychiatric diagnoses. Patients with anxiety disorders are less well investigated in this respect, particularly obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients. Eighty-three psychiatric outpatients with OCD and 110 members of the Swedish OCD Association responded to questions concerning their smoking habits. Among OCD patients, 14% were current smokers (compared with 25% in the general population of Sweden), 72% had never smoked, and 11 previous smokers had stopped, mostly without any difficulties. Since a decreased smoking rate among OCD subjects was confirmed, the smoking prevalences in schizophrenia and OCD, respectively, seem to represent either end of a continuum, and OCD may also differ significantly from other anxiety disorders in this respect. Possible implications of this finding for the purported frontal lobe dysregulation in OCD are discussed.
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- Bejerot, Susanne, 1955-, et al.
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Personality disorders and relationship to personality dimensions measured by the Temperament and Character Inventory in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
- 1998
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Ingår i: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. - Copenhagen, Denmark : Munksgaard Forlag. - 0001-690X .- 1600-0447. ; 98:3, s. 243-249
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The occurrence of personality disorders was investigated in 36 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder by means of the SCID Screen questionnaire. In addition, the personality dimensions were explored by means of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI). In total, 75% of the patients fulfilled the criteria for a personality disorder according to the SCID Screen questionnaire, mostly (55%) within cluster C. Several significant correlations were found between the separate personality disorders (PD) and subscales of the TCI, the most pronounced being between avoidant and obsessive-compulsive PD and novelty-seeking and self-directedness. Strong correlations were also found between self-directedness and paranoid and borderline PD. In multiple regressions where the presence of PD in clusters A, B and C, respectively, were used as dependent variables and where the separate subscales of the TCI were used as independent variables, the multiple R reached 0.68, 0.76 and 0.80 in clusters A, B and C, respectively. Thus 46-64% of the variance in the personality disorder clusters could be explained by the TCI subscales.
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- Bejerot, Susanne, 1955-, et al.
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Response to high doses of citalopram in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder
- 1998
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Ingår i: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. - Copenhagen, Denmark : Munksgaard Forlag. - 0001-690X .- 1600-0447. ; 98:5, s. 423-424
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report a severe case of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that responded to very high doses of citalopram (160 mg/day) after a poor response to clomipramine 250 mg/day for several years, alone or in combination with buspirone 30 mg/day or flupenthixol 4 mg/day. The patient had previously been submitted for capsulotomy which was declined, probably due to the magical content of her obsessions, which resembled delusions.
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