Impulsive Behavior - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The role of mindfulness in borderline personality disorder features.

29 Sep 2009 This study investigated whether deficits in mindfulness (attention, awareness, and acceptance of the present moment) underlie variability in borderline personality disorder (BPD) features and related impairments in interpersonal functioning, ... Read more...

Are self-injurers impulsive?: Results from two behavioral laboratory studies.

13 Sep 2009 Common clinical wisdom suggests that people who engage in self-injury are impulsive. However, virtually all prior work in this area has relied on individuals' self-report of impulsiveness, despite evidence that people are limited in their ability to ... Read more...

Familial aggregation of suicide explained by cluster B traits: a three-group family study of suicide controlling for major depressive disorder.

13 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: There is substantial evidence suggesting that suicide aggregates in families. However, the extent of overlap between the liability to suicide and psychiatric disorders, particularly major depressive disorder, remains an important issue. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Impulsive Behavior - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The role of mindfulness in borderline personality disorder features. 29 Sep 2009
• In search of endophenotypes for suicidal behavior. 29 Sep 2009
• Are self-injurers impulsive?: Results from two behavioral laboratory studies. 13 Sep 2009
• Familial aggregation of suicide explained by cluster B traits: a three-group family study of suicide controlling for major depressive disorder. 13 Sep 2009
• Bipolar spectrum-substance use co-occurrence: Behavioral approach system (BAS) sensitivity and impulsiveness as shared personality vulnerabilities. 30 Aug 2009
• Prospective relations between growth in drinking and familial stressors across adolescence. 30 Jul 2009
• Iatrogenic effect of juvenile justice. 30 Jul 2009
• The aftermath of rash action: sleep-interfering counterfactual thoughts and emotions. 30 Jul 2009
• Characteristics of psychopathy in adolescent nonsmokers and smokers: Relations to delay discounting and self reported impulsivity. 30 Jul 2009
• Impulsivity and clinical symptoms among adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury with or without attempted suicide. 21 Jul 2009
• Pathological gamblers may just be less attentive, not necessarily more impulsive. 7 Jul 2009
• Conscious thought and the sustained attention to response task. 6 Jul 2009
• An additive-utility model of delay discounting. 29 Jun 2009
• Longitudinal relations of children's effortful control, impulsivity, and negative emotionality to their externalizing, internalizing, and co-occurring behavior problems. 29 Jun 2009
• The Community Parent Education Program (COPE): treatment effects in a clinical and a community-based sample. 29 Jun 2009
• Conceptualizing the relations between executive functions and self-regulated learning. 29 Jun 2009
• Problem gamblers share deficits in impulsive decision-making with alcohol-dependent individuals. 30 May 2009
• Positive urgency predicts illegal drug use and risky sexual behavior. 30 May 2009
• Winning and positive affect can lead to reckless gambling. 30 May 2009
• Acute alcohol tolerance on subjective intoxication and simulated driving performance in binge drinkers. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Impulsive Behavior'

Definition: An act performed without delay, reflection, voluntary direction or obvious control in response to a stimulus.

Descriptor UI: D007175

Alternative terms: Impulsive Behavior; Behavior, Impulsive; Behaviors, Impulsive; Impulsive Behaviors;

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;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: use Cat F3 qualif