Trichotillomania and its treatment: a review and recommendations

ME Franklin, K Zagrabbe… - Expert review of …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Trichotillomania (TTM) is characterized as an impulse control disorder in which individuals
fail to resist urges to pull out their own hair, and is associated with significant functional …

Impulse control disorders: updated review of clinical characteristics and pharmacological management

L Schreiber, BL Odlaug, JE Grant - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Impulse control disorders (ICDs) are characterized by urges and behaviors that are
excessive and/or harmful to oneself or others and cause significant impairment in social and …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence, gender correlates, and co-morbidity of trichotillomania

JE Grant, DD Dougherty, SR Chamberlain - Psychiatry research, 2020 - Elsevier
Trichotillomania is a mental health condition characterized by repetitive pulling out of one's
hair, often leading to functional impairment and/or distress. A convenience sampling of …

N-acetylcysteine, a glutamate modulator, in the treatment of trichotillomania: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study

JE Grant, BL Odlaug, SW Kim - Archives of general psychiatry, 2009 - jamanetwork.com
Context Trichotillomania is characterized by repetitive hair pulling that causes noticeable
hair loss. Data on the pharmacologic treatment of trichotillomania are limited to conflicting …

The prevalence of pathologic skin picking in US adults

NJ Keuthen, LM Koran, E Aboujaoude, MD Large… - Comprehensive …, 2010 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Despite increasing recognition of the potentially severe medical and
psychosocial costs of pathologic skin picking (PSP), no large-sample, randomized …

[HTML][HTML] Impulse-control disorders in a college sample: results from the self-administered Minnesota Impulse Disorders Interview (MIDI)

BL Odlaug, JE Grant - The Primary Care Companion for …, 2010 - legacy.psychiatrist.com
Objective: This study sought to examine the prevalence rates of and gender differences
among impulse-control disorders in a college sample. Method: During the fall semester of …

Assessment and treatment of trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder) and excoriation (skin picking) disorder

G Jones, N Keuthen, E Greenberg - Clinics in dermatology, 2018 - Elsevier
Recommendations are provided for the assessment and treatment of trichotillomania (hair
pulling disorder, or HPD) and excoriation disorder (skin picking disorder, or SPD), two body …

Tourette's syndrome, trichotillomania, and obsessive–compulsive disorder: How closely are they related?

YA Ferrão, E Miguel, DJ Stein - Psychiatry research, 2009 - Elsevier
The question of whether Tourette's syndrome (TS) and trichotillomania (TTM) are best
conceptualized as obsessive–compulsive spectrum disorders was raised by family studies …

Trichotillomania and pathologic skin picking: clinical comparison with an examination of comorbidity

BL Odlaug, JE Grant - Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Background. Pathologic Skin Picking (PSP) and trichotillomania (TTM) are repetitive
behaviors presumed to share clinical characteristics. However, no studies have been …

Addicted to hair pulling? How an alternate model of trichotillomania may improve treatment outcome

JE Grant, BL Odlaug, MN Potenza - Harvard review of psychiatry, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Although obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) offers a reasonable explanation for many of
the features of trichotillomania, many of these features have just as much in common with …