Impulse Control Disorders - Psychology
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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...

Pathological gambling and criminality.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To review research results on the relationship between pathological gambling and criminality, published in 2007 and 2008, in English and in Spanish. RECENT FINDINGS: An important association between pathological gambling and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Impulse Control Disorders - Psychology'

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
• Pathological gambling and criminality. 30 Aug 2009
• Self-regulatory failure and intimate partner violence perpetration. 30 Aug 2009
• Impulsivity and borderline personality as risk factors for suicide attempts among opioid-dependent individuals. 16 Jul 2009
• Sensory over-responsivity in elementary school: prevalence and social-emotional correlates. 29 Jun 2009
• Dopamine dysregulation syndrome, impulse control disorders and punding after deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson's disease. 21 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
• [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
• Dysfunctional, but not functional, impulsivity is associated with a history of seriously violent behaviour and reduced orbitofrontal and hippocampal volumes in schizophrenia. 10 May 2009
• [Shopping addiction--the new face of Mammon] 29 Apr 2009
• A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of fluoxetine in patients with intermittent explosive disorder. 29 Apr 2009
• 'One sip won't do any harm . . .': temptation among women with inflammatory bowel disease/irritable bowel syndrome to engage in negative dietary behaviours, despite the consequences to their health. 30 Mar 2009
• How are traits related to problem behavior in preschoolers? Similarities and contrasts between temperament and personality. 30 Mar 2009
• Sociodemographic correlates of internet gambling: findings from the 2007 british gambling prevalence survey. 30 Mar 2009
• Cognitive restructuring for compulsive buying. 27 Feb 2009
• Cross-lagged links among gambling, substance use, and delinquency from midadolescence to young adulthood: additive and moderating effects of common risk factors. 27 Feb 2009
• Personality factors and styles among college students who binge eat and drink. 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