Transdiagnostic emotional vulnerabilities linking obsessive ‐compulsive and depressive symptoms in a community‐based sample of adolescents

ConclusionsDistress tolerance, anxiety sensitivity, and anhedonia may be unique mechanisms accounting for comorbidity between OCD and MDD symptoms in youth. Longitudinal evaluation of these candidate transdiagnostic emotional vulnerabilities in adolescent OCD‐MDD comorbidity is warranted.

Source: Depression and Anxiety - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Gregory S. Chasson, Mariel S. Bello, Alexandria M. Luxon, Trevor A. A. Graham, Adam M. Leventhal Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research