Chronic hair-pulling: Phenomenology-based subtypes

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 196-202

  Lochner, Christine ^a   Seedat, Soraya ^a   Stein, Dan J ^a,b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Gender; Hair pulling; Phenomenology; Subtyping; Trichotillomania

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISABILITY; DISABILITY SEVERITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

EID: 74849119948     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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