Erroneously Disgusted: fMRI Study Supports Disgust-Related Neural Reuse in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

: fMRI scans of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) consistently show a hyperactivity of the insular cortex, a region responsible for disgust-processing, when confronted with symptom-triggering stimuli. This asks for an investigation of the role of disgust and the insula in OCD patients. : Seventeen inpatients with OCD and 17 healthy controls (HC) underwent fMRI scanning.

The Effect of Childhood Adversities and Protective Factors on the Development of Child-Psychiatric Disorders and Their Treatment.

Families with high rates of childhood adversities (CAs) (multi problem families, MPF) have an increasing importance in public health-policy. The present study addresses the relationship between risk- and protective factors and the severity and treatment-outcome of mental disorders. Family-therapeutic home-based treatment for MPF.