Impulse Control Disorders - Diagnosis
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Gambling problem symptom patterns and stability across individual and timeframe.

30 Aug 2009 Few studies investigate gambling problems at the symptom level; even fewer investigate how symptom patterns change throughout the course of a gambling disorder. The current study utilized the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related ... Read more...

The Gambling Craving Scale: Psychometric validation and behavioral outcomes.

30 Aug 2009 Although craving is an important feature of problem gambling, there is a paucity of research investigating craving to gamble. A major stumbling block for craving research in gambling has been the lack of a methodologically sound, multidimensional ... Read more...

Self-regulatory failure and intimate partner violence perpetration.

30 Aug 2009 Five studies tested the hypothesis that self-regulatory failure is an important predictor of intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. Study 1 participants were far more likely to experience a violent impulse during conflictual interaction with ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Impulse Control Disorders - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Gambling problem symptom patterns and stability across individual and timeframe. 30 Aug 2009
• The Gambling Craving Scale: Psychometric validation and behavioral outcomes. 30 Aug 2009
• Self-regulatory failure and intimate partner violence perpetration. 30 Aug 2009
• [Parkinson's disease and obsessive-compulsive spectrum] 30 Jul 2009
• Update on pathological skin picking. 30 Jul 2009
• Validation of the questionnaire for impulsive-compulsive disorders in Parkinson's disease. 28 Jul 2009
• Sensory over-responsivity in elementary school: prevalence and social-emotional correlates. 29 Jun 2009
• A cross-sectional study of problem and pathological gambling in patients with schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder. 14 Jun 2009
• Adult attachment, personality traits, and borderline personality disorder features in young adults. 30 May 2009
• History of mild to moderate traumatic brain injury and aggression in physically healthy participants with and without personality disorder. 30 May 2009
• [Aggressive and violent behavior in adolescents] 30 May 2009
• Disentangling impulsiveness, aggressiveness and impulsive aggression: an empirical approach using self-report measures. 20 May 2009
• [Shopping addiction--the new face of Mammon] 29 Apr 2009
• Increased trait-like impulsivity and course of illness in bipolar disorder. 29 Apr 2009
• A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of fluoxetine in patients with intermittent explosive disorder. 29 Apr 2009
• Developmental pathways to conduct problems: a further test of the childhood and adolescent-onset distinction. 30 Mar 2009
• A pilot study of impulsivity and compulsivity in pathological gambling. 30 Mar 2009
• Symptom profiles in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): the effects of comorbid grooming conditions. 9 Mar 2009
• Personality factors and styles among college students who binge eat and drink. 27 Feb 2009
• Suicidal behavior: The need for its documentation in multiaxial DSM-V diagnoses. 27 Feb 2009

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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