Psychogenic excoriation: Clinical features, proposed diagnostic criteria, epidemiology and approaches to treatment

CNS Drugs

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 351-359

  Arnold, Lesley M ^a,b   Auchenbach, Megan B ^a   McElroy, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOMIPRAMINE; DOXEPIN; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; NALTREXONE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OLANZAPINE; PAROXETINE; PIMOZIDE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; COMPULSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; META ANALYSIS; OBSESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC EXCORIATION; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SCRATCHING;

EID: 0035006502     PISSN: 11727047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00023210-200115050-00002     Document Type: Review

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