Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
New data from Medical University of Vienna illuminate research in obsessive-compulsive disorder
Published in Mental Health Weekly Digest, January 12th, 2009
"To the authors' knowledge there is as of yet no study demonstrating in vivo alterations in human serotonin transporters (SERT) during clomipramine treatment in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The only study in which SERT binding has been investigated in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients before and after treatment is a small pilot study by Stengler-Wenzke et al ( 2006), who treated five OCD patients with citalopram," scientists in Vienna, Austria report.
"In the study at hand, we measured transporter availability in the thalamus-hypothalamus with [I-123] beta-CIT single photon emission computed tomography ( SPECT) in 24 patients with DSM-IV OCD....
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