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Research suggests that incentive is a useful remedy,        ??閬???脫?舐銝€蝔桀?????蝬剛??踝???and can be particularly effective for older children.  ?航??蝯???輯◤餈垢?脩 ( ??典????) ?銝?But when all else fails and no amount of instinctive   ??( 閫釭撅?) ??嚗??脣?蝺票?其?韏?[5]???脫敺??潛
responses or information gathering can strike the      摨??脫??粹?憪??瘀??函瘥???敦??鋆賢??游之?
habit, stigmatisation may be the only way left.        ?粹??嗡???孵?嚗?鋆賜?蝝啗??芸末???垢??輻??瘀?
                                                       ?啣耦??蝝啗??券??唳??脫??餅?撠望?撱嗅??? [6]嚗?踵?
     Let me end with a confession and the              蝯漲?◤?典?楠??unfortunate irony of the nail-nibbling that occurred
when I wrote this article. I am beyond the age of

relying on biological responses, and I have learnt          ?祆??脣隞亙????琿?蝔€?銝????摰喋€?颱?
(even written) about onychophagia. I guess I have      ?脫??蝺?停???脣???蝡舀?脣靘?霈摨??舫€???no choice but to ready myself for the only other       瘨仃鈭??脫銋?瘞訾??啁葬?凋? [7]???脤?蝺??撠???霅瑞?
option now: come my way, social stigma!

Winning article of the Science Focus                   ???Y?銋?皜?嚗移皞???銋??啣蔣?踴€?脩?銋憓?        Article Submission Competition.                ??脩?◢?迎?憒函???銝行??游??脣???箄釭 [8]??                                                       ?箸?車蝔桀拿????銵??嚗??芰?◤瘙∪??€?
??閮€?噩??鞈賢???蝡€?
                                                       撠?祉撠??末?匱蝡伐??€隞亙?函??拙???

閬???                                                 雿輻??喟?憭?瘛瑕????餅??嗥?箇??脰???[2]??                                                       ?弦???芣敺??刻?嚗?憭折翩?咱撠文?????荔???                                                       ?函?€???賂??喃蝙?舀?賢???鞈??賭??賣??渡????嚗?
銝?鈭? ?€??蝷暹?憯???                                                                       ?€敺?閬隤撖恍€??????撖行?其???祆?

By Natalie Si Yeung Yu 靽€                             ?脯€??拙歇??頝????僑朣∴?銋歇皜? ( ?撖思? )
                                                       ??祉??蝔桃車????靘??亦?豢?嚗?賣?冗??
     King George V School, Year 12                     蝐支?嚗?
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