Resource Tag: OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER

In 398 cases of depressive psychosis, divided into 5 groups according to the presence and persistence of obsessions before and during the depression, the suicide attempt rate was lower for the depressives with obsessions persisting throughout the depression than for those exhibiting obsessions only transiently or not at all during the depression. In itself the […]

19 depressed patients had significantly higher cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cortisol levels than did 30 healthy controls. In 12 obsessive-compulsive & 12 depressed subjects treated with clomipramine hydrochloride, the levels were significantly reduced. Cortisol levels in CSF were significantly correlated with mean urinary cortisol excretion.