Impulse Control Disorders
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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'

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
• Drug-induced compulsive behaviors: exceptions to the rule. 30 Aug 2009
• Prevalence and heritability of compulsive hoarding: a twin study. 15 Aug 2009
• Cross-national analysis of the associations among mental disorders and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. 9 Aug 2009
• Prevalence of suicide risk factors and suicide-related outcomes in the National Mental Health Study, Colombia. 30 Jul 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
• Impulsivity and borderline personality as risk factors for suicide attempts among opioid-dependent individuals. 16 Jul 2009
• Back to the future in style: psychosomatic research in cardiovascular disease. 29 Jun 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
• Treatment of hypersexuality in Parkinson's disease with carbamazepine--a case report. 13 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

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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