News tagged with trichotillomania
Teen gets Britain's first eyelash transplant: surgeons
One of Britain's biggest comestic surgery clinics claimed Sunday to have carried out the nation's first-ever eyelash transplant on a 19-year-old with a hair-pulling disorder.
Aug 09, 2009 |
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Health food supplement may curb compulsive hair pulling
University of Minnesota Medical School researchers have discovered that a common anti-oxidant, widely available as a health food supplement, may help stop the urges of those with trichotillomania, a disorder characterized ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Scientist shows link between diet and onset of mental illness
Changes in diet have been linked to a reduction of abnormal behaviors in mentally ill people or animals, but a Purdue University study shows that diet might also trigger the onset of mental illness in the first place.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Nobel winner ties mental illness to immune defect
A Nobel Prize-winning University of Utah geneticist discovered that bone marrow transplants cure mutant mice who pull out their hair compulsively. The study provides the first cause-and-effect link between ...
May 27, 2010 |
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Gene triggers obsessive compulsive disorder-like syndrome in mice
Using genetic engineering, researchers have created an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) - like set of behaviors in mice and reversed them with antidepressants and genetic targeting of a key brain circuit. ...
Aug 22, 2007 |
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Gene tied to hair pulling disorder
A Durham, N.C., study has suggested mutations in a certain gene might be related to a disorder that causes people to pull out their own hair.
Sep 28, 2006 |
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Mice learn tasks that may help treat human psychiatric disorders
Mice that couldn't be dissuaded from the object of their attention by a piece of sweet, crunchy cereal may help researchers find new treatments and cures for human disorders like autism and Parkinson's disease.
Aug 01, 2006 |
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