Update on pathological skin picking

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 283-288

  Grant, Jon E ^a   Odlaug, Brian L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; DOXEPIN; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; INOSITOL; LAMOTRIGINE; NALTREXONE; OLANZAPINE; PIMOZIDE; PLACEBO;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPULSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; INTERNET; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATHOLOGICAL SKIN PICKING; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; TISSUE INJURY; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SKIN; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

EID: 67849101391     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-009-0041-x     Document Type: Review

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