various studies suggest that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ssris) may be useful in treating pathological skin picking (psp). this study sought to assess effectiveness of citalopram in comparison with placebo in treating psp. forty five individuals with psp were recruited in a four-week, randomized clinical trial of citalopram (20 mg/day) in comparison with placebo. study measures ass...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder (SPD) is often conceptualized as a behavioral addiction in which aberrant reward processing may play an important role. The current study sought to develop a self-report instrument--the Skin Picking Reward Scale (SPRS)--that measures how strongly skin picking is 'liked' (i.e., the degree of pleasurable feelings while receiving the reward) ...

N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is a precursor to the amino acid cysteine, a modulator of the glutamatergic system. Thus, NAC may exert a therapeutic effect in several psychiatric disorders, namely schizophrenia and affective disorders, as well as symptoms and syndromes of the obsessiveimpulsive spectrum (e.g., trichotillomania and other grooming disorders, pathological gambling, and substance misuse). ...

OBJECTIVE Pathological Skin Picking (PSP) and Trichotillomania (TTM) share overlapping comorbidity and phenomenology. The extent to which these disorders share a common cognitive phenotype, however, has yet to be examined. This study sought to compare inhibitory control processes in individuals with PSP or TTM. METHODS Thirty-one subjects with PSP (mean age 31.2 ± 12.5 years; 93.5% female), 3...

PATIENT Female, 51 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Patological skin picking Symptoms: Aphasia • headache • hemiparesis • incontinence MEDICATION - Clinical Procedure: - Specialty: Dermatology. OBJECTIVE Challenging differential diagnosis. BACKGROUND Pathological skin picking (PSP) disorder is characterized by repetitive and compulsive picking of the skin resulting in tissue damage. PSP has been shown to...

Pathological skin picking (PSP) is characterized by excessive picking of the skin, resulting in significant distress or functional impairment. The aim of the present study was to investigate the emotion regulation hypothesis of PSP. University students with PSP (n = 55) and without history of PSP (n = 55) were asked to retrospectively rate the intensity of affective states before, during, and a...