onychotillomania
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Onychotillomania is a compulsive behavior in which a person picks constantly at the nails or tries to tear them off. It is not the same as onychophagia, where the nails are bitten or chewed, or dermatillomania, where skin is bitten or scratched. Onychotillomania can be categorized as a body-focused repetitive behavior in the DSM-5 and is a form of skin picking, also known as excoriation disorder.
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Within Vinony's link graph, onychotillomania is referenced by 140 other articles, and connects out to autism, social anxiety disorder and speech disorder.
It sits within the topics Body-focused repetitive behavior, Conditions of the skin appendages and Mania.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Research
65 papers- The Potential of N-Acetylcysteine for Treatment of Trichotillomania, Excoriation Disorder, Onychophagia, and Onychotillomania: An Updated Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
- Onychotillomania: Diagnosis and Management.American journal of clinical dermatology · 2017
- Onychotillomania: An underrecognized disorder.Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology · 2016
- Onychotillomania in the Setting of Homelessness.Cureus · 2022
- Onychotillomania.The British journal of dermatology · 1987
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mental disorder
- Subclass of
- body-focused repetitive behavior disorders
- Named after
- mania
- Image
- Onychotillomania.jpg
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- exact match
- purl.bioontology.org/ontology/RCD/Xa06J
- health specialty
- dermatology
- anatomical location
- nail
- different from
- nail biting
- comorbidity
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- possible treatment
- selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
- inception
- 1934-00-00
- prevalence
- 0.9
- symptoms and signs
- self-injury
- Commons category
- Onychotillomania
- ICD-9-CM
- 307.9
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Encyclopedic overview
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Onychotillomania is a compulsive behavior in which a person picks constantly at the nails or tries to tear them off. It is not the same as onychophagia, where the nails are bitten or chewed, or dermatillomania, where skin is bitten or scratched. Onychotillomania can be categorized as a body-focused repetitive behavior in the DSM-5 and is a form of skin picking, also known as excoriation disorder.
It can be associated with psychiatric disorders such as depressive neurosis, delusions of infestation and hypochondriasis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “onychotillomania” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.