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Impulse Control Disorders

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Behavioral addictions; Impulsivity; Urge-driven behaviors

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In the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV-TR), the category “impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified” included kleptomania, intermittent explosive disorder, pyromania, pathological gambling, and trichotillomania. In the fifth edition of the DSM (DSM-5), however, several classification changes were made. Pathological gambling is called “Gambling Disorder” and included in the category of “Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders”; Intermittent explosive disorder maintains the same name but is included in the category of “Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders”; Trichotillomania is called “Hair Pulling Disorder (Trichotillomania)” and included in the category “Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders” along with, among others, another body-focused repetitive behavior called excoriation (skin picking) disorder. Despite...

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 3077, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Jon E. Grant

  2. Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, Copenhagen, 1353, Denmark

    Brian L. Odlaug

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  1. Section of Behavioural Pharmacology, King's College London Institute of Psychiatry P049, London, United Kingdom

    Ian P. Stolerman

  2. Brown Medical School, Butler Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

    Lawrence H. Price

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Grant, J.E., Odlaug, B.L. (2014). Impulse Control Disorders. In: Stolerman, I., Price, L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27772-6_368-4

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