Age of onset of trichotillomania symptoms: Investigating clinical correlates

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 198, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 896-900

  Flessner, Christopher A ^a,b   Lochner, Christine ^c   Stein, Dan J ^c,d   Woods, Douglas W ^e   Franklin, Martin E ^g   Keuthen, Nancy J ^f  

^a Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g NONE

Author keywords

age of onset; hair pulling; phenomenology; Trichotillomania

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BITE; CHILDHOOD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; EYEBROW; EYELASH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SCALP HAIR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRICHOTILLOMANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650823661     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181fe7423     Document Type: Article

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