2022
Meta‐Analysis: Efficacy and Tolerability of Vesicular Monoamine Transporter Type 2 Inhibitors in the Treatment of Tic Disorders
Behling E, Farhat LC, Landeros‐Weisenberger A, Bloch MH. Meta‐Analysis: Efficacy and Tolerability of Vesicular Monoamine Transporter Type 2 Inhibitors in the Treatment of Tic Disorders. Movement Disorders 2022, 37: 684-693. PMID: 35191552, DOI: 10.1002/mds.28957.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChronic tic disorderTourette syndromeVMAT2 inhibitorsTic disordersVesicular monoamine transporter type 2 inhibitorsYale Global Tic Severity ScaleMean differenceRate of discontinuationTic Severity ScaleType 2 inhibitorsShort-term treatmentTic symptomsBlinded RCTEffective therapySeverity ScaleSystematic reviewTolerabilityAvailable evidenceAdverse effectsInverse varianceEfficacyRCTsInhibitorsNonsignificant effectTrials
2021
Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: An Empirical Approach to Defining Treatment Response and Remission in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Farhat LC, Vattimo EFQ, Ramakrishnan D, Levine JLS, Johnson JA, Artukoglu BB, Landeros-Weisenberger A, Asbahr FR, Cepeda SL, Comer JS, Fatori D, Franklin ME, Freeman JB, Geller DA, Grant PJ, Goodman WK, Heyman I, Ivarsson T, Lenhard F, Lewin AB, Li F, Merlo LJ, Mohsenabadi H, Peris TS, Piacentini J, Rosa-Alcázar AI, Rosa-Alcázar À, Rozenman M, Sapyta JJ, Serlachius E, Shabani MJ, Shavitt RG, Small BJ, Skarphedinsson G, Swedo SE, Thomsen PH, Turner C, Weidle B, Miguel EC, Storch EA, Mataix-Cols D, Bloch MH. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: An Empirical Approach to Defining Treatment Response and Remission in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Journal Of The American Academy Of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2021, 61: 495-507. PMID: 34597773, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2021.05.027.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPediatric obsessive-compulsive disorderObsessive-compulsive disorderOptimal cutoffYale-Brown ObsessiveCY-BOCSClinical trialsSystematic reviewClinical Global Impression-ImprovementRandom-effects meta-analysis modelDiscriminative abilityStandardized operational definitionsMeta-analysis modelChildren's Yale-Brown ObsessiveDiagnostic test accuracyTreatment responseRemissionSeverity ScaleMeta-AnalysisYouden indexCompulsive ScaleTrialsDisorders