Trichotillomania is more related to Tourette disorder than to obsessive-compulsive disorder

Objective: Trichotillomania (TTM) is characterized by the pulling out of one’s hair. TTM was classified as an impulse control disorder in DSM-IV, but is now classified in the obsessive-compulsive related disorders section of DSM-5. Classification for TTM remains an open question, especially consider...

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Main Authors: Hugues Lamothe, Jean-Marc Baleyte, Luc Mallet, Antoine Pelissolo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP)
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462019005015102&lng=en&tlng=en