The rates of co-occurring behavioural addictions in treatment-seeking individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder: a preliminary report.

To assess the rates of co-occurring putative 'behavioural addictions' in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Twenty-three international centres specialising in the treatment of OCD were invited to participate in a survey of the rates of behavioural addictions and other relevant comorbidity within their samples. Sixteen of 23 (69.

Treatments used for obsessive-compulsive disorder-An international perspective.

Objective: The objective of this study was to characterise international trends in the use of psychotropic medication, psychological therapies, and novel therapies used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Methods: Researchers in the field of OCD were invited to contribute summary statistics on the characteristics of their samples. Consistency of summary statistics across countries was evaluated.

Standards of care for obsessive-compulsive disorder centres.

In recent years, many assessment and care units for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have been set up in order to detect, diagnose and to properly manage this complex disorder, but there is no consensus regarding the key functions that these units should perform. The International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS) together with the Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders Network (OCRN) of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) and the Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders Section of the World Psychiaric Association (WPA) has developed a standards of care programme for OCD centres. The goals of this collaborative initiative are promoting basic standards, improving the quality of clinical care and enhance the validity and reliability of research results provided by different facilities and countries.

[Bone transport with external fixator RALCA in chronic osteomyelitis. Case report].

Objective: To present the results obtained in the treatment of chronic osteomyelitis of the distal third of the tibia using an external fixator.

Clinical Case: Male, young patient with chronic osteomyelitis of the left tibia resulting from a Gustilo IIIB complicated fracture. We performed resection of the osteomyelitis focus.

Negative outcome after neurosurgery for refractory obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder.

Objective: The authors sought to determine the long-term outcome of patients with severe and refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder spectrum (OCDS) following neurosurgery.

Method: Five patients who underwent neurosurgery as a last-resort treatment for refractory OCDS were evaluated. On all patients, posttest data was obtained from the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, The Overvalued Ideas Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory and the Beck Anxiety Inventory.

Antibodies against cerebral M1 cholinergic muscarinic receptor from schizophrenic patients: molecular interaction.

We demonstrated the presence of circulating Abs from schizophrenic patients able to interact with cerebral frontal cortex-activating muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChR). Sera and purified IgG from 21 paranoid schizophrenic and 25 age-matched normal subjects were studied by indirect immunofluorescence, flow cytometry, immunoblotting, dot blot, ELISA, and radioligand competition assays. Rat cerebral frontal cortex membranes and/or a synthetic peptide, with an amino acid sequence identical with that of human M(1) mAChR, were used as Ags.