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Head Banging

Known as: head bang, banging head, bang head 
Habitual striking of one's own head against a surface such as a mattress or wall of a crib. [HPO:probinson]
National Institutes of Health

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Body RockingMICROCEPHALY, PRIMARY AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE, 2 (disorder)Smith-Magenis syndrome

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Mental OrientationSelf-Injurious BehaviorStereotyped BehaviorStereotypic Movement Disorder

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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Non-suicidal self-injury with and without borderline personality disorder: Differences in self-injury and diagnostic comorbidity
2013
2013
Emotional regulation, dissociation, and the self-induced dermatoses: clinical features and implications for treatment with mood stabilizers.
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Spatial patterns of obesity and associated risk factors in the conterminous U.S.
Review
2005
Review
2005
The del(2)(q32.2q33) deletion syndrome defined by clinical and molecular characterization of four patients.
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Alexithymia as a mediator between childhood trauma and self-injurious behaviors.
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Case Study of the Development of an Infant with Autism from Birth to Two Years of Age.
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Dialectical behavior therapy for substance abuse: A pilot application to methamphetamine-dependent women with borderline personality disorder *
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Neuronal cytoskeletal changes are an early consequence of repetitive head injury
Abstract While neuropathological studies have established the pathology of dementia pugilistica to be similar to that of… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
What makes extinction work: an analysis of procedural form and function.
We examined methods for determining how extinction should be applied to different functions of self-injurious behavior (SIB… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Effects of naloxone on self-injurious behavior: a case study.
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