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NEW YORK, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Hair Today... Gone Tomorrow: How to Help Your Child Deal with Trichotillomania By James Costabile Losing 100 to 300 hairs from your head every day is normal and no reason for concern. Washing, combing, styling, and even running your fingers through your hair cause many to fall out. But what if you lost enough hair in one day to create a bald spot...or if you lost nearly all your hair in a single day? That's exactly what happens to people...
HairLoss.com, the world's most comprehensive website providing unbiased consumer information about hair loss and its treatment, has released the third animated video in their "True Beauty" series. The latest video release concerns Trichotillomania (TTM), or "Trich", a disorder whereby one compulsively pulls out one's own hair. "True Beauty" offers a message of hope to young women suffering from the hair pulling disorder, challenging them improve their overall health and perform simple...
Hair Club is proud to announce it will be the Title Sponsor of the Trichotillomania Learning Center Conference for the 8th consecutive year. San Francisco, California (PRWEB) April 28, 2011 Hair Club® is proud to announce it will be the Title Sponsor of the Trichotillomania Learning Center Conference for the 8th consecutive year. The conference will take place in San Francisco, California, April 29 through May 1. This year's conference marks the 18th annual event, which the...
Mayo Clinic researchers found that dopamine agonists used in treating Parkinson's disease result in impulse control disorders in as many as 22 percent of patients.Mayo Clinic first reported on this topic in 2005. The follow-up study was published online in the February 2011 issue of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders.Dopamine agonists, a class of drugs that include pramipexole (Mirapex) and ropinirole (Requip), are commonly used to treat Parkinson's disease. The drugs stimulate the brain's...
Changes in diet have been linked to a reduction of abnormal behaviors in mentally ill people or animals, but a Purdue University study shows that diet might also trigger the onset of mental illness in the first place.Joseph Garner, an associate professor of animal sciences, fed mice a diet high in sugar and tryptophan that was expected to reduce abnormal hair-pulling. Instead, mice that were already ill worsened their hair-pulling behaviors or started a new self-injurious scratching behavior,...
Pathological gambling, compulsive shopping, binge eating and other impulse control disorders appear to be more common among individuals taking dopamine agonist medications for Parkinson's disease, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.These behaviors have been reported previously in patients with Parkinson's disease, according to background information in the article. Preliminary estimates of impulse control disorders in this...
