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Behavioral interventions in onychophagia and onychotillomania

Archives of Dermatological Research
Mohammad Jafferany, Fapa
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Neurocognitive Findings in Onychophagia (Pathological Nail Biting)

Psychiatric Quarterly, 2017
A notable number of people struggle to control the desire to bite their nails, resulting in impairment and distress. Understanding this behavior and the inability to control it has received little research attention. One possible mechanism to understand nail biting is through the use of neurocognitive assessments.
Austin W, Blum, Sarah A, Redden, Jon E, Grant   +2 more
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Onychophagia and postorthodontic isolated gingival recession: Diagnosis and treatment

American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, 2012
This clinical report describes the diagnosis and the management of isolated-type recession defects of complex etiology in 2 healthy postorthodontic patients. The lesions were confined to 1 mandibular incisor and were associated with an abnormal buccolingual inclination of the affected tooth despite a lingual retainer made with a round stainless steel ...
Serena Incerti Parenti
exaly   +3 more sources

Suicidal behavior and childhood onychophagia in hospitalized psychiatric veterans

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1976
This investigation of adult suicidal behavior and childhood onychophagia among hospitalized psychiatric male veterans suggests that for only personality disorders does childhood non-onychophagia show a significant relationship to adult nonsuicidal behavior. Otherwise, this study indicates that the presence or abscence of childhood onychophagia is not a
S H, Lee, M M, Weinlander
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Suicidal age and childhood onychophagia among psychotic veterans

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1976
The relationship between childhood onychophagia (fingernail biting) and the suicidal and nonsuicidal mean age among 150 hospitalized psychotic veterans was investigated. The results show that the suicidal mean age is significantly younger than the nonsuicidal mean age and that the childhood onychophagia variable "focal suicide" significantly lowers the
S H, Lee, M M, Weinlander
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[Treatment of onychophagia].

Minerva medica, 1980
Personal experience in the hypnotic management of nailbiting is presented. Confidence in this type of treatment is rested on the results observed in a set of 32 cases, 28 of which were fully and definitively resolved. An exhaustive account is given of the subject and the method applied. Stress is laid on its technical and therapeutic advantages.
R, Arone di Bertolino, G, Nanni
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Suicidal age and childhood onychophagia among neurotic veterans

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1978
Investigated the relationship between childhood onychophagia (fingernail biting) and the suicidal and non-suicidal mean age among 60 hospitalized neurotic veterans. The results show no significant mean age difference between suicidal and non-suicidal veterans; neither does the childhood onychophagia variable "focal suicide" significantly lower either ...
M M, Weinlander, S H, Lee
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[Interdisciplinary approach to onychophagia].

Przeglad lekarski, 2004
Onychophagy is classified to the nail diseases caused by repeated injures. Nail-biting as autodestruction and onychophagy in its most aggressive form, is common not only among children but adults as well. Nail-biting in children belongs to the group of habits and habitual function, which allowed for relieving the anxiety, loneliness, inactivity in ...
Anna Wojas, Pelc, Andrzej Kazimierz, Jaworek   +1 more
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Onychophagia (Nail Biting): Clinical Aspects

2010
Pathological gambling (PG) is distinguished in both Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) and the tenth edition of the International Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders (ICD-10) from gambling secondary to mania and from social gambling, which does not persist when adverse events occur.
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[Secondary longitudinal melanonychia secondary to onychophagia].

Annales de dermatologie et de venereologie, 1999
Melanonychia of the toenails sometimes results from repeated trauma. This etiology is rarely put forward in lesions affecting the fingernails.A 44-year-old woman developed melanonychia affecting 9 fingernails. Genetic predisposition and drug, hormonal or infectious causes were ruled out and we postulated that the lesions were induced by nail biting ...
V, Salmon-Ehr, C, Mohn, P, Bernard
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