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Reversal of trichotillomania with aripiprazole
Author(s) -
Jefferys Don,
Burrows Graham
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
depression and anxiety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.634
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1520-6394
pISSN - 1091-4269
DOI - 10.1002/da.20395
Subject(s) - aripiprazole , psychiatry , psychosocial , psychology , comorbidity , psychological intervention , medicine , clinical psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming)
Trichotillomania (TTM) is a common psychiatric illness with marked chronicity and comorbidity that significantly impacts on psychosocial functioning and physical features of the sufferer. Treatment studies, to date, using behavioral and pharmacological interventions alone or simultaneously, are equivocal with few showing a sustained cessation of hair‐plucking. In this report of a single patient with treatment resistant TTM, the sole use of the atypical neuroleptic Aripiprazole resulted in a cessation of hair‐plucking maintained, at the time of reporting, for a period of 24 months. This finding, a first with Aripiprazole, warrants further investigation of this drug in the treatment of TTM. Depression and Anxiety 0:1–4, 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.