Navigation Links
Wayne State University and Children's Hospital of Michigan Research Team Discover Chemical That Plays a Major Role in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Date:4/30/2009

Faculty from the University of Michigan, University of Toronto and Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto key collaborators in study

DETROIT, April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Wayne State University medical researchers recently discovered a chemical that plays a major role in children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

David Rosenberg, M.D., the Miriam L. Hamburger Endowed Chair of Child Psychiatry and professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine at Wayne State, collaborated with researchers at the University of Michigan, Children's Hospital of Michigan and University of Toronto/ Hospital for Sick Kids. This international team discovered that the chemical, glutamate, plays a key role in children with OCD.

OCD is a debilitating neuropsychiatric condition that affects approximately 1 to 3 percent of the population worldwide. As many as 80 percent of all OCD cases begin in childhood and adolescence. In Rosenberg's study, children with OCD had abnormal glutamate levels in key brain regions which were reversible with effective treatment.

"Since our initial findings at Wayne State University, basic neuroscience, genetic, brain imaging and novel treatment development studies all converged to show that glutamate has a key role in OCD," said Rosenberg. "If we think of serotonin as analogous to light that lets us see in the dark, glutamate is the brain's light switch or brain modulator which helps turn serotonin and other chemicals off and on."

Wayne State's researchers along with Gregory Hanna, M.D. of the University of Michigan and researchers at the University of Toronto/Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto, Ontario have a longstanding collaboration and recently published the first OCD study combining brain imaging and genetics studies in the same children w
'/>"/>

SOURCE Wayne State University
Copyright©2009 PR Newswire.
All rights reserved

2

GOOD

Page: 1 2 3 4

Related medicine news :

1. Obama Notre Dame Abortion Tension Mounts: Good Friday Protests at White House, and in Dallas, Los Angeles, and Fort Wayne
2. Wayne State University Scientists ID New Biomarker for Prostate Cancer
3. Wayne Dunlap Joins S&R Communications Group as Senior Vice President
4. John Wayne Cancer Institute Auxiliary Honors Award-Winning Actress Bonnie Hunt and Philanthropists Donna & Harvey Rosen at the 24th Annual Odyssey Ball
5. Starkey Hearing Foundation Partners With GRAMMY Foundation(R) to Announce SoundMatters(TM) Initiative: GRAMMY-Nominated Artist Taylor Swift, Along With Emerging Artists Crosby Loggins, Jimmy Wayne and GRAMMY-Nominated Sara Bareilles Lead the Way in the Pr
6. Wayne County Community College District Presents Second Annual Child Car Seat Check Program
7. Elder Abuse Prevention the Focus of Wayne County Medical Society Foundations Annual Chinese New Year Fundraiser
8. Andre Konski, M.D., M.B.A., Accepts Radiation Oncology Position at Wayne State University and the Karmanos Cancer Institute
9. New Zealand Waynes New Resources Development Co., Ltd. Completes Reverse Merger to Go Public in the U.S.
10. Wayne County Medical Society Foundation To Host Holiday Party For Underprivileged Children Saturday
11. First Study of War-Related Mental Disorders Among Iraqis 10 Years Post-Gulf War Published by Researchers at Wayne State University and Basrah University, Iraq
Post Your Comments:
*Name:
*Comment:
*Email: