trichotillomania
- n an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
- Our brains can give rise to all manner of odd psychiatric problems, but one of the strangest is trichotillomania better known as hair-pulling.
- Kelly Redinger Design Pics Corbis But a paper published this week in the prestigious Archives of General Psychiatry offers a simple new hope for trichotillomania sufferers.
- Grant theorizes that trichotillomania may be a kind of grooming irregularity that falls into the obsessive-compulsive family of disorders.