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    Glossary Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors

    repetitive self-grooming actions causing physical harm, like hair pulling

    Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) are a group of related disorders characterized by repetitive self-grooming behaviors that can cause physical damage. These behaviors include hair pulling (trichotillomania), skin picking (dermatillomania), and nail biting (onychophagia). They are often performed in response to stress or anxiety and can lead to significant distress and impairment in daily functioning.

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    1. Hair Care and Hair‐Focused Repetitive Behaviors: A Descriptive Cross‐Sectional Study Health Science Reports · 2026
    2. Body-focused repetitive behaviors and the dermatology patient Clinics in Dermatology · 2018 · 17 citations
    3. An Unusual Compulsive Behavior Related to Scalp Psoriasis and Hair Follicle Anxiety in Young Men Skin Appendage Disorders · 2025
    4. Body Focused Repetitive Behavior at an Unusual Site and in an Unusual Pattern - Symmetrical Trichotillomania International Journal of Trichology · 2025
    5. Cross-sectional survey examining skin picking and hair pulling disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology · 2020 · 12 citations
    6. Children with trichotillomania in COVID‐19 outbreak Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology · 2021 · 5 citations
    7. Obsessive-compulsive skin disorders: a novel classification based on degree of insight Journal of Dermatological Treatment · 2016 · 21 citations
    8. Pathologic Hairpulling, Skin Picking, and Nail Biting Annals of Clinical Psychiatry · 2005 · 84 citations
    9. Trichotillomania and Traction Alopecia InTech eBooks · 2017
    10. Cultural Trichotillomania: A Look at Eyebrow Loss in India Indian Dermatology Online Journal · 2025
    11. Dermatologists’ Role in Interdisciplinary Care for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors Journal of Dermatology and Skin Science · 2026
    12. Management of psychiatric disorders with HIV and dermatological disorders 2022 · 2 citations
    13. A retrospective review of 12 patients with trichotillomania treated in a psychodermatology service Clinical and Experimental Dermatology · 2019 · 4 citations
    14. Trichotillomania Across Circuits: Neurobiology, Sensory Processing, and Genetic Insights 2025
    15. Trichotillomania Across Circuits: Neurobiology, Sensory Processing, and Genetic Insights 2025
    16. Traction Alopecia Dermatologic Clinics · 2014 · 30 citations
    17. Trichotillomania: Neurobiology and treatment Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2009 · 119 citations
    18. 47-Year-Old Female with Alopecia on the Frontal and Temporal Scalp Clinical Cases in Dermatology · 2022
    19. Macroenvironmental Regulation of Hair Cycling and Collective Regenerative Behavior Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine · 2014 · 42 citations
    20. Optimizing psychological interventions for trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder): an update on current empirical status Psychology Research and Behavior Management · 2015 · 21 citations
    21. Hair Loss in Women Postgraduate obstetrics & gynecology · 2012
    22. Diagnosis and management of hair loss in children Current Opinion in Pediatrics · 2016 · 1 citations
    23. Cognitive, emotional, physical, and behavioral stress-related symptoms and coping strategies among university students during the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022 · 3 citations
    24. Psychocutaneous disease Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology · 2017 · 38 citations
    25. Trichotillomania in Children Skin appendage disorders · 2015 · 28 citations
    26. General Characteristics of Hair in Eating Disorders Springer eBooks · 2012
    27. Group Treatment for Trichotillomania: Behavior Therapy Versus Supportive Therapy Behavior Therapy · 2006 · 69 citations
    28. Trichotillomania: Bizzare Patern of Hair Loss at 11-Year-old Girl. PubMed · 2016 · 2 citations
    29. Cell wall-associated ROOT HAIR SPECIFIC 10, a proline-rich receptor-like kinase, is a negative modulator of Arabidopsis root hair growth Journal of Experimental Botany · 2016 · 33 citations
    30. Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Treatment of Trichotillomania: Case Series Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience · 2020 · 8 citations