@article{ref1,
title="Obsessive compulsive disorder and soft bipolarity in children and adolescents: Results from the French "ABC-TOC" survey",
journal="Neuropsychiatrie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence",
year="2002",
author="Kochman, F. and Hantouche, E.G. and Millet, B. and Lancrenon, S. and Demonfaucon, C. and Barrot, I. and Akiskal, H.S.",
volume="50",
number="2",
pages="132-138",
abstract="Nowadays, there is a huge contrast between the scarcity of French-speaking publications concerning early-onset obsessive compulsive disorder and the prevalence of this illness according to the most recent publications. We present herein the epidemiological and clinical results of a vast national survey called &quot;ABC-TOC&quot; from which we extracted the complete data emanating from 36 children and adolescent aged from 6 to 15 years old. This study reveals that obsessive compulsive disorder in this age group is characterised by the plurality of many obsessions and concomitant compulsions whose evolution remains unstable and fluctuating, and is often marked by irritability and conduct disorders in the foreground. Moreover, there is an outstanding comorbid pathology: bipolar disorder (17.4% of the patients) preceded by a cyclothymic temperament, which is strongly related to a high suicidal risk: more than one third of the subjects of this study had suicidal ideations and 3 of them (9.7%) have attempted suicide several times since the OCD onset. © 2002 Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS.<p /><p>Language: fr</p>",
language="fr",
issn="0222-9617",
doi="10.1016/S0222-9617(02)00081-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0222-9617(02)00081-8"
}