Gianluca Serafini, MD, PhD

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Untangling the Web of Comorbid Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Medical Illness

Andrea Aguglia, MD, PhD;Costanza Giacomini, MD;Andrea Amerio, MD, PhD;Gianluca Serafini, MD, PhD;Mario Amore, MD

March 10th 2020

OCD symptoms can be quite difficult to recognize. Not understanding what is happening, patients tend to be ashamed and suffer in silence, often resulting in a period of 8 to 10 years of untreated illness and long-term negative outcomes.

Differentiating Comorbid Bipolar Disorder and OCD

Andrea Amerio, MD, PhD;Alessandra Costanza, MD;Andrea Aguglia, MD, PhD;Gianluca Serafini, MD, PhD;Vlasios Brakoulias, MD, PhD;Mario Amore, MD;S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH

March 4th 2020

This review highlights an important diagnostic and therapeutic task: the importance of differentiating true bipolar disorder/obsessive-compulsive disorder comorbidity from BD with secondary OCD.