Anxiety and obsessive compulsive behaviour

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Safer, natural and drug-free treatments for anxiety – Ryan Rivera courtesy of Latitudes 12/11

First Published in December 2011

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Temporal Association of Certain Neuropsychiatric Disorders Following Vaccination of Children and Adolescents: A Pilot Case–Control Study. January 2017
This study used an interesting approach: it identified newly diagnosed cases of neuropsychiatric disorders from private medical insurance claims data in the US. It then looked to see whether the individuals concerned had received a vaccination in the preceding months. Individuals diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (in particular) were more likely to have received a vaccination in the 3-12months leading up to the diagnosis, than control participants. This does not imply a causal relationship between vaccinations and these neuropsychiatric disorders but does suggest that further investigation of this could be important to understanding whether vaccinations might play a causal role for a particular sub-group of individuals.

Link discovered between antibodies to strep throat bacteria and obsessive compulsive disorder in mice August 2009

Gene mutation in mice linked with obsessive behaviour
August 2007

First Published in August 2007

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