Trichotillomania in a Case of Vascular Dementia

Trichotillomania is a complex psychiatric disorder and occurs along with a large number of comorbidity. We report a case of trichotillomania associated with vascular dementia. Trichotillomania in our case did not resolve using mirtazapine or conventional medications. Trichotillomania in dementia see...

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Autores principales: De Sousa, Avinash, Mehta, Janki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3746227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23960397
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.114715
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description Trichotillomania is a complex psychiatric disorder and occurs along with a large number of comorbidity. We report a case of trichotillomania associated with vascular dementia. Trichotillomania in our case did not resolve using mirtazapine or conventional medications. Trichotillomania in dementia seems to have a neurobiological origin that needs to be elucidated.
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spelling pubmed-37462272013-08-19 Trichotillomania in a Case of Vascular Dementia De Sousa, Avinash Mehta, Janki Int J Trichology Case Report Trichotillomania is a complex psychiatric disorder and occurs along with a large number of comorbidity. We report a case of trichotillomania associated with vascular dementia. Trichotillomania in our case did not resolve using mirtazapine or conventional medications. Trichotillomania in dementia seems to have a neurobiological origin that needs to be elucidated. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3746227/ /pubmed/23960397 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.114715 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Trichology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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