Self-Injurious Behavior - Complications
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

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...

An unusual penpal: case report and literature review of posterior urethral injuries secondary to foreign body insertion.

30 Jul 2009 We report the case of a 57-year-old male who attended the emergency department after inserting a ballpoint pen into his urethra 24 hours earlier during a sexual encounter. Rigid cystoscopy was performed and confirmed the foreign body to have caused ... Read more...

[Cause of a contusion of the eyeball]

29 Jun 2009 A 21-year-old man presented in the emergency department with noticeable deterioration of vision and a feeling of pressure in the right eye. He stated that he had injured his eye when a shot was fired while cleaning a blank cartridge pistol. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Self-Injurious Behavior - Complications'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Are self-injurers impulsive?: Results from two behavioral laboratory studies. 13 Sep 2009
• An unusual penpal: case report and literature review of posterior urethral injuries secondary to foreign body insertion. 30 Jul 2009
• [Cause of a contusion of the eyeball] 29 Jun 2009
• Interagency working. 11 Jun 2009
• Inhalation injury associated with smoking, alcohol and drug abuse: an increasing problem. 25 May 2009
• [Self-harm and sports--case reports] 28 Apr 2009
• [Self-harm and eating disorders] 28 Apr 2009
• Suicide. 16 Apr 2009
• Case report of self-injurious behaviour (SIB) presenting as gingivitis artefacta major. 12 Feb 2009
• ECT for self-injury in an autistic boy. 3 Feb 2009
• Altered glucose tolerance in women with deliberate self-harm. 30 Jan 2009
• Penile strangulation: report of two unusual cases. 30 Jan 2009
• Reversal of optic neuropathy secondary to voluntary globe luxation. 18 Jan 2009
• An evaluation of resurgence during treatment with functional communication training. 30 Dec 2008
• Non-suicidal self-injury and eating pathology in high school students. 30 Dec 2008
• Treatment challenges associated with comorbid substance use and posttraumatic stress disorder: clinicians' perspectives. 30 Dec 2008
• An uncommon burn. 30 Dec 2008
• Morsicatio mucosae oris--a chronic oral frictional keratosis, not a leukoplakia. 30 Dec 2008
• Bedside echocardiography in the management of a thoracic stab wound with early pericardial tamponade. 23 Oct 2008
• Loss of vision secondary to obsessive-compulsive disorder: a case report. 5 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Self-Injurious Behavior'

Definition: Behavior in which persons hurt or harm themselves without the motive of suicide or of sexual deviation.

Descriptor UI: D016728

Alternative terms: Self-Injurious Behavior; Behavior, Self-Injurious; Self Injurious Behavior; Deliberate Self-Harm; Deliberate Self Harm; Self-Harm, Deliberate; Self-Destructive Behavior; Behavior, Self-Destructive; Self Destructive Behavior; Parasuicide;

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: F01.145.126.980;

History Note: 92

Technical Notes: SELF MUTILATION is also available; DF: SELF INJ BEHAVIOR