Method of treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder

Details Method of treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder Method of treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder

1997-01-28

1999-01-26

Sisson, Bradley L.

Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology

Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...

Involving nucleic acid

435 911, 435 912, 435810, 536 231, 536 2433, 935 76, 935 77, 935 78, C12Q 168, C12P 1934, C07H 2104, C12N 1500

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ABSTRACT:
Methods of identifying patients having a susceptibility to obsessive-compulsive disorder resultant from a reduced level of Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) are described. Therapies, utilizing COMT or COMT agonists, or dopamine antagonists in combination therewith, are also envisioned, as well as methods for determining the patients which will benefit the most from such therapies.

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