The study found that the higher the dose, the greater the likelihood of an impulse control behavior. "One in four patients who were on a medium therapeutic dose of the medication had an impulse control disorder," Dr. Hassan says. "For patients who were taking a higher range of the medicat...
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AEDs are increasingly used as primary or adjunctive treatments for impulse control disorders (ICDs) and cluster B personality disorders [in particular borderline personality disorder (BPD)]. Thus, in addition to the reviewing the effects of AEDS on the symptoms of impulsivity and aggression across a...
which may help explain why laymen use these expressions interchangeably. Although there has been a large research effort to better characterize and disentangle these behaviours, clinicians and scientists are still unable to clearly differentiate them. Accordingly, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), impul...
Of the 306 people who did not have impulse control disorders at the start of the study, 94 people developed a disorder during the study, for an overall five-year cumulative incidence of 46 percent. For people who had never taken dopamine agonists the five-year incidence was 12 percent, comp...
deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It may seem counterintuitive that stimulant medications are prescribed to treat a disorder that involves hyperactivity, but the therapeutic effect comes from increases in neurotransmitter activity within certain areas of the brain associated with impulse control. ...
Impulse control disorders, including intense urges (e.g., urges to gamble, uncontrolled spending, binge eating, increased sexual urges) and inability to control these urges may occur. In some cases, urges ceased when opicapone dosage was reduced or the drug discontinued. (See Advice to Patients...
Effects of methylphenidate on inhibitory control in hyperactive children. J Abnorm Child Psychol 17: 473–491. Winstanley CA (2011). The utility of rat models of impulsivity in developing pharmacotherapies for impulse control disorders. Br J Pharmacol 164: 1301–1321. Winstanley CA, Theobald DE,...
I go away, and am usually good for another 6 months. I’ve never had a chiropractor offer to cure anything, from gallstones to depression by cracking my back; I’ve never had one suggest I needed to try any homeopathic remedies; I’ve never had one claim my bipolar disorder was all ...
symptoms of an impulse control disorder during the past six months. Manifestations observed include pathological gambling, compulsive shopping, binge eating, and compulsive sexual behaviour (hypersexuality). Possible independent risk factors for impulse control disorders included dopaminergic treatments and...