Impulse Control Disorders - Classification
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Disentangling impulsiveness, aggressiveness and impulsive aggression: an empirical approach using self-report measures.

20 May 2009 There is confusion in the literature concerning the concept of impulsive aggression. Based on previous research, we hypothesize that impulsivity and aggression may be related, though not as closely as to consider them the same construct. So, our aim ... Read more...

Classifying hypersexual disorders: compulsive, impulsive, and addictive models.

29 Nov 2008 In closing, we argue for two conclusions. First, there are advantages to using theoretically neutral terms (such as hypersexual disorder) that go beyond the compulsive-impulsive-addictive distinctions. Although the notion of theory-neutral ... Read more...

Classes of disruptive behavior problems in referred adolescents.

18 Aug 2007 BACKGROUND: Previous studies have found considerable overlap between attention/hyperactivity problems, aggressive/oppositional problems and delinquent/conduct problems in adolescents. SAMPLING AND METHODS: Mothers of 1,965 11- to 18-year-olds (1,116 ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Impulse Control Disorders - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Disentangling impulsiveness, aggressiveness and impulsive aggression: an empirical approach using self-report measures. 20 May 2009
• Classifying hypersexual disorders: compulsive, impulsive, and addictive models. 29 Nov 2008
• Issues for DSM-V: suicidal behavior as a separate diagnosis on a separate axis. 30 Oct 2008
• [Impulse control disorders: the return of Esquirol's instinctive monomania] 29 Apr 2008
• Classes of disruptive behavior problems in referred adolescents. 18 Aug 2007
• Trichotillomania, stereotypic movement disorder, and related disorders. 30 Jul 2007
• Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire data on alcoholic violent offenders: specific connections to severe impulsive cluster B personality disorders and violent criminality. 28 Jul 2007
• [Compulsive shopping--current considerations on classification and therapy] 29 Apr 2007
• Dimensional analysis of ADHD subtypes in rats. 17 Oct 2006
• Should the scope of addictive behaviors be broadened to include pathological gambling? 30 Aug 2006
• Psychological experience of gambling and subtypes of pathological gamblers. 19 Aug 2006
• A Structured Clinical Interview for Kleptomania (SCI-K): preliminary validity and reliability testing. 30 May 2006
• Does work on obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders contribute to understanding the heterogeneity of obsessive-compulsive disorder? Feb 2006
• Recurrent detoxifications are associated with craving in patients classified as type 1 according to Lesch's typology. 15 Oct 2005
• Disorders characterized by poor impulse control. 29 Sep 2005
• On phenomenology and classification of hoarding: a review. 30 Oct 2004
• The medicalization of compulsive buying. 29 Apr 2004
• [Excessive compulsive buying or "behavioral addiction"? A case study] 29 Mar 2004
• ["Consumo ergo sum"?--The compulsive buying as a behavioral pathology] 29 Mar 2004
• [Obsessive compulsive disorders: part of anxiety disorders or another family of mental disorders?] 30 Dec 2003

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Technical information about 'Impulse Control Disorders'

Definition: Disorders whose essential features are the failure to resist an impulse, drive, or temptation to perform an act that is harmful to the individual or to others. Individuals experience an increased sense of tension prior to the act and pleasure, gratification or release of tension at the time of committing the act.

Descriptor UI: D007174

Alternative terms: Impulse Control Disorders; Disorders, Impulse Control; Impulse-Control Disorders; Intermittent Explosive Disorder; Disorders, Intermittent Explosive; Explosive Disorder, Intermittent; Intermittent Explosive Disorders; Kleptomania;

Related Mesh Headings: Paraphilias; Substance-Related Disorders;

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: F03.500;

Online Note: use OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER to search KLEPTOMANIA 1966-80

History Note: KLEPTOMANIA was see under NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1963-80