The mouse who couldn't stop washing: Pathologic grooming in animals and humans

CNS Spectrums

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 503-513

  Feusner, Jamie D ^a   Hembacher, Emily ^a   Phillips, Katharine A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; AVIAN PSYCHOGENIC FEATHER PICKING; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; CANINE ACRAL LICK DERMATITIS; COMPULSION; COMPULSIVE SKIN PICKING; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FELINE PSYCHOGENIC ALOPECIA; GROOMING; HABIT; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OLFACTORY REFERENCE SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

ALOPECIA; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY IMAGE; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; DERMATITIS; FEATHERS; GROOMING; HUMANS; MICE; SMELL; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

EID: 70849096543     PISSN: 10928529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1092852900023567     Document Type: Review

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