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Early onset obsessive–compulsive disorder: the biological and clinical phenotype

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2021

Giacomo Grassi*
Affiliation:
Brain Center Firenze, Florence, Italy
Chiara Cecchelli
Affiliation:
Brain Center Firenze, Florence, Italy
Gloria Mazzocato
Affiliation:
Brain Center Firenze, Florence, Italy
Luisa Vignozzi
Affiliation:
Brain Center Firenze, Florence, Italy
*
*Author for correspondence: Giacomo Grassi, MD, PhD, Email: giacomograssimd@gmail.com

Abstract

Moving from a behavioral-based to a biological-based classification of mental disorders is a crucial step toward a precision-medicine approach in psychiatry. In the last decade, a big effort has been made in order to stratify genetic, immunological, neurobiological, cognitive, and clinical profiles of patients. Making the case of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), a lot have been made in this direction. Indeed, while the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnosis of OCD aimed to delineate a homogeneous group of patients, it is now clear that OCD is instead an heterogeneous disorders both in terms of neural networks, immunological, genetic, and clinical profiles. In this view, a convergent amount of literature, in the last years, indicated that OCD patients with an early age at onset seem to have a specific clinical and biological profile, suggesting it as a neurodevelopmental disorder. Also, these patients tend to have a worse outcome respect to adult-onset patients and there is growing evidence that early-interventions could potentially improve their prognosis. Therefore, the aim of the present paper is to review the current available genetic, immunological, neurobiological, cognitive, and clinical data in favor of a more biologically precise subtype of OCD: the early-onset subtype. We also briefly resume current available recommendations for the clinical management of this specific population.

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