Systematic review of environmental risk factors for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A proposed roadmap from association to causation

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 65, Issue , 2016, Pages 36-62

  Brander, Gustaf ^a   Pérez Vigil, Ana ^a   Larsson, Henrik ^a   Mataix Cols, David ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM COUNTY COUNCIL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adoption; Environment; Famine; Genes; Immigration; Infection; Obsessive Compulsive disorder; PANDAS; Perinatal complications; Reproductive cycle events; Risk factors; Socioeconomic status; Stressful life events; Substance abuse; Traumatic brain injury; Urbanization; Vitamin deficiency

Indexed keywords

BIRTH; BRAIN INJURY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DSM-III; DSM-IV; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY COHESION; FAMILY SIZE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTIMACY; LIFE EVENT; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; NEWBORN DISEASE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OVARY CYCLE; OVERPROTECION; PARENTAL AGE; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL REJECTION; PARENTHOOD; PHYSICAL ABUSE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL ABUSE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STRESSFUL LIFE EVENT; SUBSTANCE USE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; REPRODUCTION;

HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84961909193     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.03.011     Document Type: Review

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