Trichotillomania - Classification
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Cross-sectional study of women with trichotillomania: a preliminary examination of pulling styles, severity, phenomenology, and functional impact.

7 Sep 2008 The current study utilized a cross-sectional design to examine pulling severity, phenomenology, functional impact, and "focused" and "automatic" pulling styles in women with TTM across a wide age spectrum. "Automatic" pulling refers to pulling ... Read more...

Is it trichotillomania? Hair pulling in childhood: a developmental perspective.

29 Jun 2008 A cohort of children with hair pulling as the presenting symptom was followed up to enhance clinical understanding of the nature of hair-pulling behaviour in childhood. Thirty-eight children were clinically assessed for a diagnosis of ... Read more...

Trichotillomania, stereotypic movement disorder, and related disorders.

30 Jul 2007 Trichotillomania is currently classified as an impulse control disorder not otherwise classified, whereas body-focused behaviors other than hair-pulling may be diagnosed as stereotypic movement disorder. A number of disorders characterized by ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Trichotillomania - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Cross-sectional study of women with trichotillomania: a preliminary examination of pulling styles, severity, phenomenology, and functional impact. 7 Sep 2008
• Is it trichotillomania? Hair pulling in childhood: a developmental perspective. 29 Jun 2008
• Trichotillomania, stereotypic movement disorder, and related disorders. 30 Jul 2007
• Trichotillomania and skin-picking: a phenomenological comparison. 30 Dec 2001
• Characteristics and phenomenology of hair-pulling: an exploration of subtypes. 29 Apr 2001
• Trichotillomania. 29 Jun 1999
• Trichotillomania: current issues in conceptualization and treatment. 29 Jun 1998
• [The dynamics of trichotillomania--from a congenital adaptational reaction to a pathological habit and to a pathology of drives] 30 Dec 1996
• Trichotillomania and related disorders in children and adolescents. 30 Dec 1996
• Can the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale be used to assess trichotillomania? A preliminary report. 30 Jan 1993
• Trichotillomania. An obsessive compulsive spectrum disorder? 29 Nov 1992
• [Trichotillomania] 28 May 1991

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Technical information about 'Trichotillomania'

Definition: Compulsion to pull out one's hair.

Descriptor UI: D014256

Alternative terms: Trichotillomania; Trichotillomanias;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.500.800;

Online Note: use OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER to search TRICHOTILLOMANIA 1966-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER 1981-90; was see under NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1963-80; was in Cat F only 1975-79