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Impulse-control disorder (ICD) is a class of psychiatric disorders characterized by impulsivity – failure to resist a temptation, an urge, or an impulse; or having the inability to not speak on a thought.
Klüver–Bucy syndrome has been shown to occur more in adults than in children. [13] In children, certain conditions such as herpes simplex encephalitis have the potential to manifest the syndrome. [13] Children exhibit many of the same symptoms as adults with Klüver–Bucy syndrome, but they display these symptoms in different ways than ...
Inhibitory control, also known as response inhibition, is a cognitive process – and, more specifically, an executive function – that permits an individual to inhibit their impulses and natural, habitual, or dominant behavioral responses to stimuli (a.k.a. prepotent responses) in order to select a more appropriate behavior that is consistent with completing their goals.
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The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
People diagnosed with kleptomania often have other types of disorders involving mood, anxiety, eating, impulse control, and drug use. They also have great levels of stress, guilt, and remorse, and privacy issues accompanying the act of stealing. These signs are considered to either cause or intensify general comorbid disorders.
Eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, [1] [7] bulimia nervosa [1] [7] and binge eating disorder [1] Hypochondriasis [1] Kleptomania; Impulse control disorders in general [1] Olfactory reference syndrome [8] Paraphilias [1] [9] Pathological gambling [10] Pica [11] Non-paraphilic sexual addictions [1] Tourette syndrome [1] Stereotypic ...
The Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS) is a widely used measure of impulsiveness.It includes 30 items that are scored to yield six first-order factors (attention, motor, self-control, cognitive complexity, perseverance, and cognitive instability impulsiveness) and three second-order factors (attentional, motor, and non-planning impulsiveness).