Prevalence and correlates of clinically significant body-focused repetitive behaviors in a non-clinical sample

K Solley, C Turner - Comprehensive psychiatry, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) are repetitive, ritualized behaviors
focused on the body, involving compulsively damaging one's physical appearance or …

Habit reversal training and variants of decoupling for use in body-focused repetitive behaviors. A randomized controlled trial

S Moritz, D Penney, A Bruhns, S Weidinger… - Cognitive Therapy and …, 2023 - Springer
Background Behavioral interventions hold promise in improving body-focused repetitive
behaviors (BFRBs), such as hair pulling and skin picking. The effect of combining different …

A head-to-head comparison of three self-help techniques to reduce body-focused repetitive behaviors

S Moritz, D Penney, K Ahmed… - Behavior …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) include skin picking, trichotillomania, nail biting
and cavitadaxia/lip-cheek biting, among other behaviors. For the first time, we compared …

The Generic BFRB Scale-8 (GBS-8): a transdiagnostic scale to measure the severity of body-focused repetitive behaviours

S Moritz, C Gallinat, S Weidinger, A Bruhns… - Behavioural and …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Background: Body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs) such as skin picking and hair
pulling are frequent but under-diagnosed and under-treated psychological conditions. As of …

Cilia in the striatum mediate timing-dependent functions

W Alhassen, S Alhassen, J Chen, RV Monfared… - Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Almost all brain cells contain cilia, antennae-like microtubule-based organelles. Yet, the
significance of cilia, once considered vestigial organelles, in the higher-order brain functions …

Clinical Characteristics, Sleep, and Temperament in Infants and Young Children with Problematic Hair Pulling and Skin Picking

K Pendo, VS Swisher, TY Leman, AJ Rissman… - Cognitive Therapy and …, 2024 - Springer
Background This study examined clinical characteristics of problematic hair pulling (HP) and
skin picking (SP) in infants and young children and their association with self-soothing …

Body-focused repetitive behaviors in youth with mental health conditions: A preliminary study on their prevalence and clinical correlates

V La Buissonnière-Ariza, J Alvaro, M Cavitt… - … Journal of Mental …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) are recurrent behaviors targeting one or more
body regions that may associate with negative outcomes. Little is known on their prevalence …

[HTML][HTML] Skin picking disorder

SO Eskeland, E Moen, KJ Meland… - Tidsskrift for Den …, 2021 - tidsskriftet.no
Skin picking disorder is an under-recognised mental disorder that typically starts during
adolescence and leads to considerable emotional distress and/or reduced functioning in …

[HTML][HTML] Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors in Patients with FOXP1 Syndrome: An International Cross-Sectional Survey-Based Study

KL Curtis, SR Lipner - Skin Appendage Disorders, 2024 - karger.com
Introduction: FOXP1 syndrome is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder due to forkhead box
protein 1 (FOXP1) gene mutations and is associated with intellectual disability, dysmorphic …

Reasons for the Emergence of Body-Focus Repetitive Behaviors in Students and the Impact of Body-Focus Repetitive Behaviors on Students

W Wang - 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and …, 2022 - atlantis-press.com
Researchers have long explored the relationship between Body-Focus Repetitive Behaviors
(BFRBs) and students, including school-age children and youth, and the effects of BFRBs on …