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Pharmacological and behavioral treatment for trichotillomania: An updated systematic review with meta‐analysis
Farhat LC, Olfson E, Nasir M, Levine JLS, Li F, Miguel EC, Bloch MH. Pharmacological and behavioral treatment for trichotillomania: An updated systematic review with meta‐analysis. Depression And Anxiety 2020, 37: 715-727. PMID: 32390221, DOI: 10.1002/da.23028.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsClinical trialsSingle randomized clinical trialTTM symptomsFirst-line medicationRandomized clinical trialsStrong evidence baseLarge treatment effectsHair pulling disorderEffective medicationsAvailable agentsPharmacological agentsAdditional trialsDrug AdministrationPsychiatric conditionsSystematic reviewN-acetylcysteineBehavioral treatmentBehavioral therapyEvidence baseTrichotillomaniaTrialsRelative efficacyTreatment effectsMedicationsSymptoms
2016
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Early Treatment Responses of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Clomipramine in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Varigonda AL, Jakubovski E, Bloch MH. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Early Treatment Responses of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Clomipramine in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Journal Of The American Academy Of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2016, 55: 851-859.e2. PMID: 27663940, PMCID: PMC6944467, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2016.07.768.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSelective serotonin reuptake inhibitorsPediatric obsessive-compulsive disorderSerotonin reuptake inhibitorsObsessive-compulsive disorderYale-Brown ObsessiveReuptake inhibitorsTime courseEarly treatment responseTreatment effectsChildren's Yale-Brown ObsessiveSSRI agentsPlacebo groupSSRI treatmentAdult patientsTreatment responsePooled estimatesPharmacological responseHigh dosesMeta-AnalysisSystematic reviewClomipramineSymptom dataMagnitude of responseMean differenceCompulsive Scale
2012
Systematic review: Pharmacological treatment of tic disorders – Efficacy of antipsychotic and alpha-2 adrenergic agonist agents
Weisman H, Qureshi IA, Leckman JF, Scahill L, Bloch MH. Systematic review: Pharmacological treatment of tic disorders – Efficacy of antipsychotic and alpha-2 adrenergic agonist agents. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2012, 37: 1162-1171. PMID: 23099282, PMCID: PMC3674207, DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.09.008.Peer-Reviewed Original Research