Trichotillomania Treated with Amitriptyline
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 168 (8) , 505-507
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-198008000-00011
Abstract
A case of trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling) in a young adult is presented. The patient was treated with the tricyclic antidepressant amitriptyline in progressively increasing dosage, with marked improvement in symptoms. Amitriptyline has a pharmacological spectrum of action analogous to chlorimipramine, a medication with reputed effectiveness in severe compulsive behaviors. Thus, a rationale for the use of amitriptyline in this and related disorders evolves.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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