Trichotillomania Across the Life Span
August 2009
in “
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
”
TLDR Trichotillomania is a chronic hair-pulling disorder that starts in early teens and causes distress and hair loss.
The document highlighted the lack of randomized clinical trials for children with trichotillomania and noted the scarcity of research on the clinical course and natural history of childhood-onset trichotillomania.