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Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain
Anttila, Verneri; Bulik-Sullivan, Brendan; Finucane, Hilary K.; Walters, Raymond K.; Bras, Jose; Duncan, Laramie; Escott-Price, ValentinaDisorders of the brain can exhibit considerable epidemiological comorbidity and often share symptoms, provoking debate about their etiologic overlap. We quantified the genetic sharing of 25 brain disorders from genome-wide association studies of 265,218 patients and 784,643 control participants and assessed their relationship to 17 phenotypes from 1,191,588 individuals. Psychiatric disorders share common varian...
Perfectionism in obsessive-compulsive and eating disorders
Maia, Berta R.; Soares, Maria J.; Gomes, Ana; Marques, Mariana; Pereira, Ana Telma; Cabral, Ana Sofia; Valente, José; Bos, Sandra C.; Pato, MicheleObjective: The main aims of this article are twofold. First, to assess perfectionism dimensions in obsessive-compulsive disorder and eating disorders in comparison with psychiatric control (depression/anxiety) and non-clinical control groups. Second, to examine if perfectionism is specifically related to these different clinical conditions. Method: Thirty-nine outpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, 24 ...
Perfectionism and eating attitudes in Portuguese university students
Macedo, António; Soares, Maria João; Azevedo, Maria Helena; Gomes, Ana; Pereira, Ana Telma; Maia, Berta; Pato, MicheleThe main objective was to explore which are the dimensions of perfectionism that are linked to disordered eating behaviour (EB) in a large non-clinical sample of both genders.One thousand one hundred and sixty-three undergraduate students of the University of Coimbra completed the Portuguese versions of the multidimensional perfectionism scale (MPS) and the eating attitudes test (EAT-40).In both genders, the MP...