Journal Article #1: Is juvenile obsessive-compulsive disorder a developmental subtype of the disorder? A review of the pediatric literature. Author: Daniel Geller from the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, April, 1998. This article’s main objective was to seek out similarities and/or differences between juvenile (child and adolescent) obsessive-compulsive disorder and adult forms of the disease. It stated three competing hypotheses on the relationship between juvenile and adult OCD: 1. juvenile and …showed first 75 words of 1191 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1191 total…was that antidepressants are effective in the short term treatment of OCD, that Clomipramine/SSRIs are more effective than non-serotonergic drugs and that concomitant depression is not necessary for effectiveness in treatment. This article was a different kind of follow up to the two previous articles. It wasn’t as detailed as the others but still related closely to them. It had more to do with the treatment practices than the disease itself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**