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Author(s)
Necati Uzun
Ömer Faruk Akça
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2017.10.005
Affiliation(s)
Elazığ Psychiatry Hospital, Elazığ, Turkey
Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey
ABSTRACT
Trichotillomania (TTM) is
an impulse control disorder characterized by the repetitive tearing of hair and
eyebrows. TTM usually starts in adolescence. Some treatment modalities in the treatment
of TTM, psychopharmacological therapies are one of the most commonly used methods,
but treatment interventions, especially with serotonergic agents, do not always
beneficial. It has been shown in several studies that second-generation antipsychotic
agents, such as olanzapine, quetiapine, aripiprazole (ARP), risperidone may be useful as monotherapy or in
combination in the treatment of trichotillomania. There is a limited number of
data in the literature that using low dose ARP as monotherapy in the treatment
of trichotillomania in adolescents. In this case report, we will present effectiveness
of low dose aripiprazole monotherapy in the treatment of an adolescent girl with
TTM.
KEYWORDS
adolescent, trichotillomania, aripiprazole
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