Although a relatively common behavior, treatment data for pathological skin picking (PSP) are limited. The current study sought to examine the efficacy and tolerability of lamotrigine in adults with PSP and to examine neurocognitive predictors of treatment response. Thirty-two subjects (29 female subjects [90.6%]; mean age, 32.8 +/- 13.3 years) with PSP were treated in a 12-week randomized, dou...

Although pathological skin-picking has been documented in the medical literature since the 19th century, it has only recently been included as a distinct entity in psychiatric classification systems. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition and the proposed International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision, excoriation (skin-picking) disorder (ED), als...

This study aims to represent our clinical experience with several psychocutaneous disorders, such as trichotillomania, neurotic excoriation, dermatitis artefacta, and parasitic delusion. Lightening the human mind’s way of function has always been a challenge attracted medical interest through years. Psychodermatology recently received attention because different mechanisms psychoneuroimmunology...

Objective: The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale Modified for Neurotic Excoriation (NE-YBOCS) is a valid and reliable scale used to evaluate the severity of skin picking disorder (SPD). This was validity reliability study Turkish version NE-YBOCS. Method: Eighty patients diagnosed with SPD according Diagnostic Statistical Manual Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition criteria were included study. ...

Background: The Global Wealth Migration Review 2019 report, published by New World Wealth, estimated that 48% of India's total wealth was held high-net worth individuals. Distinct factors dominate the prescription anti-depressants in geriatric population. Accordingly, intention pharmacotherapy psycho dermatoses is deciphered study. . Objective: To survey and analyze selection dermatologists pra...

Introduction Approximately 45% of stoma patients experience peristomal skin excoriation.1 Common causes include mechanical trauma, infectious dermatitis, and pyoderma gangrenosum. Pyoderma gangrenosum most often is associated with inflammatory bowel disease; presentation may begin with mild excoriation that rapidly develops into painful, pyogenic ulcers within hours or days. Regardless of the c...

The self-inflicted dermatoses, namely dermatitis artefacta, neurotic excoriations, and trichotillomania, have been reported to be associated with various degrees of psychopathology in the dermatologic literature, but have received surprisingly little emphasis in the psychiatric literature. This probably reflects, firstly the fact that most of these patients initially deny any psychologic proble...

Excoriation disorder is the repetitive scratching or picking of skin that leads to physical damage, distress, and functional impairment. Skin picking has been associated with impulsivity and problems with inhibition. We hypothesized that problems in these areas could be disease severity markers. We recruited 73 adults meeting DSM-5 criteria for excoriation disorder, and 50 adult controls. Those...