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Trichotillomania (TTM) is a hair pulling disorder where a person urges to pull out hair from their scalp, eyelashes, and eyebrows. Hair pulling is an impulse control disorder which can result in noticeable hair loss in adults and adolescents.

Aims: To determine whether the risk of psychotic symptoms during weeks of methamphetamine use was dependent on, increased by, or independent of having a family history of psychosis. Design: Secondary analysis of 13 contiguous 1-week periods of data (1370 weeks). A risk modification framework was used to test each scenario. Setting: Geelong, Wollongong and Melbourne, Australia. Participants: Participants in a randomized controlled trial of treatment for methamphetamine dependence (n = 148) who di...

Trichotillomania (TTM) is a hair pulling disorder where a person urges to pull out hair from their scalp, eyelashes, and eyebrows. Hair pulling is an impulse control disorder which can result in noticeable hair loss in adults and adolescents.

Before a planned Pride event, a small LGBTQIA2SS+++ flag was burned at Saticoy Elementary School in North Hollywood, Southern California.

The abstract of a scientific study undertaken in 1994 has been making the rounds on social media, and it is shocking on two levels. The first wave of shock (although not surprise) comes at you from wh...

The most comprehensive study of neurodevelopmental conditions in Kenya and South Africa ever conducted shares preliminary results and lessons.

Christine McGuinness will tonight bravely open up about her life with autism in an eye-opening BBC documentary. But what is autism? And what are the giveaway signs in children and adults?

Clinical staging of bipolar disorder (BD) requires application of real-world data, as the next step in hypothesis. This study used the staging model to analyze the long-term course of BD in Korean patients based on clinical features and treatment responses to map the progression of bipolar illness from its early phase after the onset of illness. A total of 136 patients diagnosed with BD-I (n = 62) or BD-II (n = 74) were recruited. Their progressive stages were retrospecti...

Research supports the utility of electroencephalographic (EEG) microstates (MS) D and A as functional biomarkers for ADHD.

Research supports the utility of electroencephalographic (EEG) microstates (MS) D and A as functional biomarkers for ADHD.