Open-label escitalopram treatment for pathological skin picking

International Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 268-274

  Keuthen, Nancy J ^a   Jameson, Mariko ^a   Loh, Rebecca ^b   Deckersbach, Thilo ^a   Wilhelm, Sabine ^a   Dougherty, Darin D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dermatillomania; Escitalopram; Neurotic excoriations; Pathological skin picking; Self injurious skin picking

Indexed keywords

ESCITALOPRAM; PLACEBO; TOPIRAMATE; TRAZODONE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEAD; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; MIGRAINE; PATHOLOGICAL SKIN PICKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEDATION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SKIN DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT GAIN; YAWNING;

ADULT; ANXIETY; CITALOPRAM; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SKIN; STEREOTYPIC MOVEMENT DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547787792     PISSN: 02681315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YIC.0b013e32809913b6     Document Type: Article

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