ANA GABRIELA HOUNIE
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LIM/21 - Laboratório de Neuroimagem em Psiquiatria, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
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- Sensory phenomena associated with repetitive behaviors in obsessive-compulsive disorder: An exploratory study of 1001 patients(2012) FERRAO, Ygor Arzeno; SHAVITT, Roseli Gedanke; PRADO, Helena; FONTENELLE, Leonardo F.; MALAVAZZI, Dante Marino; MATHIS, Maria Alice de; HOUNIE, Ana Gabriela; MIGUEL, Euripedes Constantino; ROSARIO, Maria Conceicao doA substantial number of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) report compulsions that are preceded not by obsessions but by subjective experiences known as sensory phenomena. This study aimed to investigate the frequency, severity, and age at onset of sensory phenomena in OCD, as well as to compare OCD patients with and without sensory phenomena in terms of clinical characteristics. We assessed 1,001 consecutive OCD patients, using instruments designed to evaluate the frequency/severity of OC symptoms, tics, anxiety, depression, level of insight and presence/severity of sensory phenomena. All together, 651 (65.0%) subjects reported at least one type of sensory phenomena preceding the repetitive behaviors. Considering the sensory phenomena subtypes, 371 (57.0%) patients had musculoskeletal sensations, 519 (79.7%) had externally triggered ""just-right"" perceptions, 176 (27.0%) presented internally triggered ""just right,"" 144 (22.1%) had an ""energy release,"" and 240 (36.9%) patients had an ""urge only"" phenomenon. Sensory phenomena were described as being as more severe than were obsessions by 102(15.7%) patients. Logistic regression analysis showed that the following characteristics were associated with the presence of sensory phenomena: higher frequency and greater severity of the symmetry/ordering/arranging and contamination/washing symptom dimensions; comorbid Tourette syndrome, and a family history of tic disorders. These data suggest that sensory phenomena constitute a poorly understood psychopathological aspect of OCD that merits further investigation.
conferenceObject Does Inflammation Play a Role in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?(2013) SILVERMAN, Marni; CASSAB, Raony; MUNIZ, Renan; SHAVITT, Roseli G.; TOLEDO, Maria Cecilia; CAPPI, Carolina; THAYER, Julian; MATHIS, Maria Alice de; DINIZ, Juliana B.; HOEXTER, Marcelo Q.; D'ALCANTE, Carina C.; BORCATO, Sonia; HOUNIE, Ana G.; WHITFIELD, Jessie; BELYAVSKAYA, Elena; STERNBERG, Esther; MIGUEL, Euripedes; MARQUES, Andrea H.- Whole-exome Sequencing in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder Identifies Rare Mutations and Immunological Pathways(2014) CAPPI, Carolina; BRENTANI, Helena; LIMA, Leandro; SANDERS, Stephan J.; DINIZ, Juliana; WALKER, Michael; REIS, Viviane N. S.; HOUNIE, Ana G.; MARIANI, Daniel; OKI, Fabio H.; SHAVITT, Roseli G.; PAULS, David L.; MIGUEL, Euripedes C.; FERNANDEZ, Thomas V.
- Comorbid major depression in obsessive-compulsive disorder patients(2011) QUARANTINI, Lucas C.; TORRES, Albina Rodrigues; SAMPAIO, Aline S.; FOSSALUZA, Victor; MATHIS, Maria Alice de; ROSARIO, Maria Conceicao do; FONTENELLE, Leonardo F.; FERRAO, Ygor A.; CORDIOLI, Aristides Volpato; PETRIBU, Katia; HOUNIE, Ana G.; MIGUEL, Euripedes C.; SHAVITT, Roseli G.; KOENEN, Karestan C.Although major depressive disorder (MDD) has been consistently considered the most frequent complication of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), little is known about the clinical characteristics of patients with both disorders. This study assessed 815 Brazilian OCD patients using a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation. Clinical and demographic variables, including OCD symptom dimensions, were compared among OCD patients with and without MDD. Our findings showed that prevalence rates of current MDD (32%) and lifetime MDD (67.5%) were similar for both sexes in this study. In addition, patients with comorbid MDD had higher severity scores of OCD symptoms. There was no preferential association of MDD with any particular OCD symptom dimension. This study supports the notion that depressed OCD patients present more severe general psychopathology.
- Whole-exome sequencing in obsessive-compulsive disorder identifies rare mutations in immunological and neurodevelopmental pathways(2016) CAPPI, C.; BRENTANI, H.; LIMA, L.; SANDERS, S. J.; ZAI, G.; DINIZ, B. J.; REIS, V. N. S.; HOUNIE, A. G.; ROSARIO, M. Conceicao do; MARIANI, D.; REQUENA, G. L.; PUGA, R.; SOUZA-DURAN, F. L.; SHAVITT, R. G.; PAULS, D. L.; MIGUEL, E. C.; FERNANDEZ, T. V.Studies of rare genetic variation have identified molecular pathways conferring risk for developmental neuropsychiatric disorders. To date, no published whole-exome sequencing studies have been reported in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We sequenced all the genome coding regions in 20 sporadic OCD cases and their unaffected parents to identify rare de novo (DN) single-nucleotide variants (SNVs). The primary aim of this pilot study was to determine whether DN variation contributes to OCD risk. To this aim, we evaluated whether there is an elevated rate of DN mutations in OCD, which would justify this approach toward gene discovery in larger studies of the disorder. Furthermore, to explore functional molecular correlations among genes with nonsynonymous DN SNVs in OCD probands, a protein-protein interaction (PPI) network was generated based on databases of direct molecular interactions. We applied Degree-Aware Disease Gene Prioritization (DADA) to rank the PPI network genes based on their relatedness to a set of OCD candidate genes from two OCD genome-wide association studies (Stewart et al., 2013; Mattheisen et al., 2014). In addition, we performed a pathway analysis with genes from the PPI network. The rate of DN SNVs in OCD was 2.51 x 10(-8) per base per generation, significantly higher than a previous estimated rate in unaffected subjects using the same sequencing platform and analytic pipeline. Several genes harboring DN SNVs in OCD were highly interconnected in the PPI network and ranked high in the DADA analysis. Nearly all the DN SNVs in this study are in genes expressed in the human brain, and a pathway analysis revealed enrichment in immunological and central nervous system functioning and development. The results of this pilot study indicate that further investigation of DN variation in larger OCD cohorts is warranted to identify specific risk genes and to confirm our preliminary finding with regard to PPI network enrichment for particular biological pathways and functions.
conferenceObject Does inflammation play a role in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?(2013) SILVERMAN, M.; CASSAB, R.; MUNIZ, R.; SHAVITT, R. G.; TOLEDO, M. C.; CAPPI, C.; THAYER, J.; MATHIS, A. de; DINIZ, J.; HOEXTER, M.; ALCANTE, C. D.; BORCATO, S.; HOUNIE, A. G.; WHITFIELD, J.; BELYAVSKAYA, E.; STERNBERG, E.; MIGUEL, E.; MARQUES, A.- Trajectory in obsessive-compulsive disorder comorbidities(2013) MATHIS, Maria Alice de; DINIZ, Juliana B.; HOUNIE, Ana G.; SHAVITT, Roseli G.; FOSSALUZA, Victor; FERRAO, Ygor; LECKMAN, James F.; PEREIRA, Carlos de Braganca; ROSARIO, Maria Conceicao do; MIGUEL, Euripedes C.The main goal of this study is to contribute to the understanding of the trajectory of comorbid disorders associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) according to the first manifested psychiatric disorder and its impact in the clinical course of OCD and subsequent psychiatric comorbidities. One thousand and one OCD patients were evaluated at a single time point. Standardized instruments were used to determine the current and lifetime psychiatric diagnoses (Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I and for impulse-control disorders) as well as to establish current obsessive-compulsive, depressive and anxiety symptom severity (Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale; Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories and the OCD Natural History Questionnaire). To analyze the distribution of comorbidities according to age at onset Bayesian approach was used. Five hundred eight patients had the first OC symptom onset till the age of 10 years old. The first comorbidity to appear in the majority of the sample was separation anxiety disorder (17.5%, n=175), followed by ADHD (5.0%, n=50) and tic disorders (4.4%, n=44). OCD patients that presented with separation anxiety disorder as first diagnosis had higher lifetime frequency of post-traumatic stress disorder (p=0.003), higher scores in the Sexual/Religious dimension (p=0.04), Beck Anxiety (p<0.001) and Depression (p=0.005) Inventories. OCD patients that initially presented with ADHD had higher lifetime frequencies of substance abuse and dependence (p<0.001) and worsening OCD course (p=0.03). OCD patients that presented with tic disorders as first diagnosis had higher lifetime frequencies of OC spectrum disorders (p=0.03). OCD is a heterogeneous disorder and that the presence of specific comorbid diagnoses that predate the onset of OCD may influence its clinical presentation and course over the lifetime.