Emotional regulation, dissociation, and the self-induced dermatoses: Clinical features and implications for treatment with mood stabilizers

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 110-117

  Gupta, Madhulika A ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CARBONATE; MOOD STABILIZER;

ACNE; ALOPECIA; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BULIMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMATITIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG USE; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ABUSE; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; LOW DRUG DOSE; NOTE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN ULCER; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CHILD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LITHIUM CARBONATE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SKIN DISEASES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871095836     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: 18791131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2011.11.015     Document Type: Note

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