COMORBIDITY IN OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER - FOCUS ON DEPRESSION

Citation
A. Milanfranchi et al., COMORBIDITY IN OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER - FOCUS ON DEPRESSION, European psychiatry, 10(8), 1995, pp. 379-382
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry
Journal title
ISSN journal
09249338
Volume
10
Issue
8
Year of publication
1995
Pages
379 - 382
Database
ISI
SICI code
0924-9338(1995)10:8<379:CIOD-F>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
The authors investigated the comorbidity between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and other psychiatric disorders in a group of 154 outpa tients. The influence of an associate major depressive disorder (MDD) on the outcome of treatment with clomipramine was examined in a subgro up of 52 patients. The results showed that MDD was the most frequent d isorder associated with OCD (almost 20% of the patients), followed by generalized anxiety and panic disorder. The co-presence of depression delayed the effect of clomipramine.