Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Intermittent explosive disorder involves repeated, sudden episodes of impulsive, aggressive, violent behavior or angry verbal outbursts in which you react grossly out of proportion to the situation.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W108
Diagnosis: Intermittent Explosive Disorder
US Patients: 16 Mil- May also be due to lesions in the prefrontal cortex, amygdala reducing the regularity of insulin
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: M+;W
Age Onset: Age 6
Brain Area: low on serotonin from the hypothalamus’s suprachiastmatic nucleus, outputting serotonin from the raphe nuclei; may be hereditary
Symptoms: Outbursts of anger, rage and/or violence disproportionate to the situation
Progression:
Causes: Infections from the toxoplasma gondii parasite and psychatrice aggression
Medications: Ant-depressants, SSRI’s and mood stabilizers.
Therapies: CBT, Cognitive Relaxation and Coping Skills Therapy -learning to resist impulses.
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- Decision-making under conditions of explicit risk and uncertainty in autistic and typically developing adolescents and young adultsby Marie K Krug on May 2, 2024
Adolescence has been characterized as a period of risky and possibly suboptimal decision-making, yet the development of decision-making in autistic adolescents is not well understood. To investigate decision-making in autism, we evaluated performance on 2 computerized tasks capturing decision-making under explicit risk and uncertainty in autistic and non-autistic adolescents/young adults ages 12-22 years. Participants completed the Game of Dice Task (32 IQ-matched participant pairs) to assess...
- Midfrontal conflict theta and parietal P300 are linked to a latent factor of DSM externalising disordersby Phoebe S-H Neo on May 1, 2024
Psychiatric illnesses form spectra rather than categories, with symptoms varying continuously across individuals, i.e., there is no clear break between health and disorder. Dimensional measures of behaviour and brain activity are promising targets for studying biological mechanisms that are common across disorders. Here, we assessed the extent to which neural measures of the sensitivity of the three biological systems in the reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) could account for individual...
- Psychiatric comorbidities in children with conduct disorder: a descriptive analysis of real-world databy Tashalee R Brown on April 22, 2024
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- Against the odds: exploring individuals' pushback mechanisms against commercialized football gamblingby Tunde Adebisi on April 22, 2024
INTRODUCTION: The need for money, the pursuit of pleasure, and the liberalized access to gambling have been documented in several pieces of literature as the drivers of gambling. Such drivers are predicated on commercialized gambling, leading to the growth of the gambling industry and constituting a structural influence that normalizes the activity among young people.