trichotillomania (hair-pulling) in a 4.5-year-old girl

Trichotillomania: Bizzare Patern of Hair Loss at 11-Year-old Girl.

Trichotillomania (TTM) is defined by the Diagnostics and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DMS-IV) as hair loss from a patient`s repetitive self-pulling of hair. The disorder is included under anxiety disorders because it shares some obsessive-compulsive features. Patients have the tendency towards feelings of unattractiveness, body dissatisfaction, and low self-esteem (1,2). I...

White matter integrity in hair-pulling disorder (trichotillomania).

Hair-pulling disorder (trichotillomania, HPD) is a disabling condition that is characterized by repetitive hair-pulling resulting in hair loss. Although there is evidence of structural grey matter abnormalities in HPD, there is a paucity of data on white matter integrity. The aim of this study was to explore white matter integrity using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in subjects with HPD and he...

A 3-year-old girl with thin hair.

CME EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: 1.Identify the clinical features of loose anagen syndrome.2.Distinguish between loose anagen syndrome and other types of alopecia in a young child.3.Understand the natural history of loose anagen syndrome. A healthy 3-year-old white girl presented to the pediatric dermatology clinic for evaluation of thin hair. She was born with little hair and slowly grew thin blond...

Trichotillomania, bipolar disorder and white matter hyperintensities in a six-year old girl.

A six-year-old girl was referred to our child psychiatry outpatient clinic by the Pediatric Neurology Unit with a diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and trichotillomania. She had neither eyebrows nor eyelashes. The clinical picture was of irritability, frequent tantrums, and aggressive behaviour. During the following year she presented several brief episodes of intense...

Mediterranean Stomatocytosis/macrothrombocytopenia in A 9-Year-Old Girl

The Phenomenology of Hair Pulling Urges in Trichotillomania: A Comparative Approach

Trichotillomania is a disorder characterized by recurrent urges to pull out one's hair, but the experiential characteristics of hair pulling urges are poorly understood. This study used a comparative approach to understand the subjective phenomenology of hair pulling: participants with trichotillomania symptoms were asked about their hair pulling urges as well as their urges to eat unhealthy fo...