April 05, 2016 JAMA Psychiatry TAKE-HOME MESSAGE The authors of this clinical trial evaluated the effectiveness of N-acetylcysteine for the treatment of excoriation (skin-picking) disorder (SPD), with the primary outcome being improvement in the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale modified for Neurotic Excoriation (NE-YBOCS). They found a 38.3% reduction in NE-YBOCS skin-picking symptoms in the N-acetylcysteine […]