Compulsive Behavior - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The hoarding syndrome: screening and treatment.

29 Jun 2009 Hoarding syndrome is a serious public health hazard. It may pose risk of fire, falls, infestation, and bacterial growth. Hoarding can reduce activities of daily living, adherence to treatment, and quality of life. The hoarder collects excessive ... Read more...

On three strands of meaning associated with the word nigger used during the course of a psychoanalytic treatment.

29 Jun 2009 The author presents an overview of recent clinical/theoretical work on the construction of otherness in structured forms of hatred. He then uses clinical material to demonstrate three interwoven strands of meaning attached to the word nigger, a ... Read more...

Acute changes in obsessions and compulsions following moderate-intensity aerobic exercise among patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

22 Jun 2009 Aerobic exercise can acutely influence anxious and depressive mood in both clinical and nonclinical populations. However, there are no existing studies that have examined the acute effect of exercise on mood, anxiety, obsessions, and compulsions in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Compulsive Behavior - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The hoarding syndrome: screening and treatment. 29 Jun 2009
• On three strands of meaning associated with the word nigger used during the course of a psychoanalytic treatment. 29 Jun 2009
• Acute changes in obsessions and compulsions following moderate-intensity aerobic exercise among patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. 22 Jun 2009
• Building the nest: reworking adolescent development in adult recovery from addiction. 30 May 2009
• [Shopping addiction--the new face of Mammon] 29 Apr 2009
• [Pathological gambling, an addiction without drugs] 29 Apr 2009
• Bigorexia: bodybuilding and muscle dysmorphia. 29 Apr 2009
• [Panic attacks simulated by occipital lobe seizures] 29 Apr 2009
• Measuring obsessive-compulsive symptoms: Padua Inventory-Revised vs. Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale. 22 Apr 2009
• Checking-in on the memory deficit and meta-memory deficit theories of compulsive checking. 6 Apr 2009
• Sub-clinical compulsive checkers show impaired performance on habitual, event- and time-cued episodic prospective memory tasks. 29 Mar 2009
• Children's Florida Obsessive Compulsive Inventory: psychometric properties and feasibility of a self-report measure of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in youth. 25 Mar 2009
• Drug hoarding: a case of atypical dopamine dysregulation syndrome in a RLS patient. 13 Mar 2009
• Cognitive restructuring for compulsive buying. 27 Feb 2009
• A forgotten plague: making sense of dancing mania. 19 Feb 2009
• Impaired inhibitory control is associated with higher-order repetitive behaviors in autism spectrum disorders. 19 Jan 2009
• Exploring relationships of psychopathology in hypersexual patients using the MMPI-2. 30 Dec 2008
• [A new explanatory model for obsessive-compulsive disorder] 30 Dec 2008
• Sexual compulsivity and high-risk sex among Latino men: the role of internalized homonegativity and gay organizations. 30 Dec 2008
• New dimensions in human laboratory models of addiction. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Compulsive Behavior'

Definition: The behavior of performing an act persistently and repetitively without it leading to reward or pleasure. The act is usually a small, circumscribed behavior, almost ritualistic, yet not pathologically disturbing. Examples of compulsive behavior include twirling of hair, checking something constantly, not wanting pennies in change, straightening tilted pictures, etc.

Descriptor UI: D003192

Alternative terms: Compulsive Behavior; Behavior, Compulsive; Behaviors, Compulsive; Compulsive Behaviors;

Related Mesh Headings: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F01.145.527.100;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: use Cat F3 qualif