A case of clozapine-induced skin picking behaviour  

作　　者：Balaswamy Reddy Soumitra Das Srinivas Guruprasad 

机构地区：[1]Department of Psychiatry,National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences(NIMHANS),Bengaluru,Karnataka,India [2]G.K.Reddy Hospital,Kadapa,Andhra Pradesh,India

出　　处：《General Psychiatry》2018年第5期109-110,共2页综合精神医学（英文）

摘　　要：There is some evidence consistently linking the occurrence of de novo obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD) with clozapine. This skin-picking disorder is also known as impulsive-compulsive disorder-unspecified which with an increasing convergence with OCD has been placed in the current Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders-fifth edition by American Psychiatric Association(DSM-5), in the category of the obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. To the best of our knowledge, there is no literature relating antipsychotics like clozapine with the occurrence of skin-picking behaviour. In this article, we present a case in whom skin-picking behaviour emerged during the upward dose titration of clozapine and was successfully treated with escitalopram.There is some evidence consistently linking the occurrence of de novo obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD) with clozapine. This skin-picking disorder is also known as impulsive-compulsive disorder-unspecified which with an increasing convergence with OCD has been placed in the current Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders-fifth edition by American Psychiatric Association(DSM-5), in the category of the obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. To the best of our knowledge, there is no literature relating antipsychotics like clozapine with the occurrence of skin-picking behaviour. In this article, we present a case in whom skin-picking behaviour emerged during the upward dose titration of clozapine and was successfully treated with escitalopram.

关 键 词：impulsive-compulsive disorder-unspecified skin-picking BEHAVIOUR 

分 类 号：R74[医药卫生—神经病学与精神病学]