title: Trichotillomania, stereotypic movement disorder, and related disorders.
abstract: Trichotillomania is currently classified as an impulse control disorder not otherwise classified, whereas body-focused behaviors other than hair-pulling may be diagnosed as stereotypic movement disorder. A number of disorders characterized by repetitive, body-focused behaviors (eg, skin-picking) are prevalent and disabling and may have phenomenological and psychobiological overlap. Such disorders deserve greater recognition in the official nosology, and there would seem to be clinical utility in classifying them in the same diagnostic category.
authors: UCT Department of Psychiatry, Groote Schuur Hospital J-2, Observatory 7925, Cape Town, South Africa. dan.stein@uct.ac.za
authors: Dan J
authors: DJ
authors: Stein
authors: Joseph P
authors: JP
authors: Garner
authors: Nancy J
authors: NJ
authors: Keuthen
authors: Martin E
authors: ME
authors: Franklin
authors: John T
authors: JT
authors: Walkup
authors: Douglas W
authors: DW
authors: Woods
mesh_terms: D007174:Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D019956:Stereotypic Movement Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014256:Trichotillomania / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*