Body-focused Repetitive Behaviours Conference

Event Notes:

Oxford will host the first conference of its kind into body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs) such as hair pulling and skin picking next month.

It comes just over a year after the organiser Professor Clare Mackay first spoke publicly about her experience of hair pulling disorder, also known as trichotillomania, which she has experienced for four decades.

Professor Mackay, who is Professor of Imaging Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, is working with the charitable organisation Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours UK and Ireland to organise the conference.

The event, taking place on September 13^th and 14^th, is unique in not only bringing together academics from a range of disciplines to share research and ideas, but will also have a community-focused day with people with lived experience of these conditions.