N-acetylcysteine in the treatment of pediatric trichotillomania: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled add-on trial

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 231-240

  Bloch, Michael H ^a   Panza, Kaitlyn E ^a   Grant, Jon E ^b   Pittenger, Christopher ^a   Leckman, James F ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

N acetylcysteine; randomized controlled trial; trichotillomania

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; PLACEBO;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG ERUPTION; DYSPHAGIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; MASSACHUSETT GENERAL HOSPITAL HAIR PULLING SCALE; NAUSEA; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHARMACIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; THERAPY EFFECT; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HUMANS; MALE; PLACEBOS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

EID: 84875205047     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: 15275418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2012.12.020     Document Type: Article

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