Objective: Biomarkers are defined as anatomical, biochemical or physiological traits that are
specific to certain disorders or syndromes. The objective of this paper is to summarise the …

Objective There has been rapid growth in research regarding inflammation in
neuropsychiatric disorders as it relates to youth. We therefore set out to systematically …

Mouse Hoxb8 mutants show unexpected behavior manifested by compulsive grooming and
hair removal, similar to behavior in humans with the obsessive-compulsive disorder …

Sickness behavior, a coordinated set of behavioral changes in response to infection, lies at
the intersection of immunology, endocrinology, and evolutionary biology. Sickness behavior …

Hoxb8 mutant mice show compulsive behavior similar to trichotillomania, a human
obsessive-compulsive-spectrum disorder. The only Hoxb8 lineage-labeled cells in the …

Hoxb8 mutant mice exhibit compulsive grooming and hair removal dysfunction similar to
humans with the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)-spectrum disorder, trichotillomania …

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a clinical syndrome whose hallmarks are
excessive, anxiety-evoking thoughts and compulsive behaviors that are generally …

Immunological factors are increasingly recognized as being important in a range of
neuropsychiatric disorders. We aimed to summarize the disperse and often conflicting …

Introduction: A growing body of evidence implicates inflammatory cascades in the
pathophysiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), making this pathway a target for …

OBJECTIVES: We aimed to determine the plasma levels of cytokines in patients with
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as compared with healthy controls and to investigate …