Intravenous Immunoglobulin Is Not an Effective Treatment for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated With Streptococcal Infection Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (10) ◽  
pp. 837-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan W. Mink
Keyword(s):  
Effective Treatment ◽  
Intravenous Immunoglobulin ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Streptococcal Infection ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Disorder ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder

Fear Over Facts: When Fellow Clinicians Become a Barrier to Dissemination of Exposure and Response Prevention for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder—A Clinical Response to Licensing Board Investigation of Exposure and Response Prevention

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-184
Author(s):  
Laura M. Lokers
Keyword(s):  
Effective Treatment ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Standard Treatment ◽  
Response Prevention ◽  
Accurate Assessment ◽  
Exposure And Response Prevention ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Level Student

In 2018, a graduate level student filed a complaint regarding the use of exposure-based therapy for persons with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) experiencing violent obsessions. In the investigation, the licensing board expressed concern about safety of us of exposure and response prevention (ERP) with children and in public venues. The licensing board also struggled with accurate assessment of a clinician's efficacy in following the gold-standard treatment for OCD. Despite extensive research demonstrating ERP is a safe, effective treatment for OCD, stigma against exposure based treatments remain strong, even among clinicians. This commentary article discusses the specific licensing investigation and implications for change throughout the field of psychotherapy.

Investigating Tourette Syndrome as a Neurologic Sequela of Rheumatic Fever

CNS Spectrums ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Kurlan
Keyword(s):  
Rheumatic Fever ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Tourette Syndrome ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Streptococcal Infection ◽  
Molecular Mimicry ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Neurologic Sequela ◽  
Immune Mediated

AbstractSydenham's chorea is currently recognized as the only neurologic sequela of rheumatic fever. Recent evidence suggests that there may be a spectrum of neurobehavioral disturbances, particularly including tics and obsessive-compulsive disorder, that develops following streptococcal infection by the process of molecular mimicry, whereby antibodies directed against bacterial antigens cross-react with brain targets. This proposed postinfectious, immune-mediated condition has been termed “pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders after streptococcal infection” (PANDAS). This article reviews research evidence in favor and also against the PANDAS concept and discusses the implications of the hypothesis.

Living with OCD

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth McIngvale
Keyword(s):  
Effective Treatment ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder

Living with obsessive-compulsive disorder raises lifelong challenges—not only the daily struggle with symptoms, but also challenges to educate oneself, one’s family, and one’s peers; the search for effective treatment; and the ongoing battle with stigma. This closing chapter provides a personal narrative of one individual’s experience.

Diagnostic interview assessed neuropsychiatric disorder comorbidity in 334 individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Holland LaSalle ◽  
Kiara R. Cromer ◽  
Kathryn N. Nelson ◽  
Diane Kazuba ◽  
Lucy Justement ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Disorder ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder
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