Trichotillomania in a dementia case

We report an 87-year-old male case of hair pulling associated with a white-matter vascular dementia (Binswanger’s disease). Trichotillomania in our case did not resolve using mirtazapine or anticholinesterasic medication. Trichotillomania seems to be related to a form of perseveration associated wit...

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Autores principales: Caixeta, Leonardo, Lopes, Danielly Bandeira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2011
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29213722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1980-57642011DN05010011
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description We report an 87-year-old male case of hair pulling associated with a white-matter vascular dementia (Binswanger’s disease). Trichotillomania in our case did not resolve using mirtazapine or anticholinesterasic medication. Trichotillomania seems to be related to a form of perseveration associated with dementia. The findings in this case suggest the abnormality involving white matter in the pathogenesis of trichotillomania, may constitute a defect in connectivity in the right frontal-subcortical circuit.
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spelling pubmed-56191412017-12-06 Trichotillomania in a dementia case Caixeta, Leonardo Lopes, Danielly Bandeira Dement Neuropsychol Case Reports We report an 87-year-old male case of hair pulling associated with a white-matter vascular dementia (Binswanger’s disease). Trichotillomania in our case did not resolve using mirtazapine or anticholinesterasic medication. Trichotillomania seems to be related to a form of perseveration associated with dementia. The findings in this case suggest the abnormality involving white matter in the pathogenesis of trichotillomania, may constitute a defect in connectivity in the right frontal-subcortical circuit. Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC5619141/ /pubmed/29213722 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1980-57642011DN05010011 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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