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The extant research demonstrates that the combination of personality disorder and violence implies severe dysfunction, poor responsivity to treatment, more serious and persistent violence, and higher recidivism rates. Thus, it comes as no surprise that personality disorder is included in many of the...
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PMID: 20958171
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We evaluated the association of genetic variants in the dopaminergic receptor genes (DRD1-3s) with risk for gambling in healthy subjects using the Canadian Problem Gambling Index (CPGI). Healthy Caucasian subjects who had gambled at least once in their lifetime (n=242) were included in the analysis....
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PMID: 20452395
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We used both arterial spin labeling perfusion functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to directly quantify resting cerebral blood flow (CBF) and blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) fMRI to measure neural responses to risk taking during performance on the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART)....
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PMID: 20589879
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We assessed whether early emotional distress directly influences later gambling or if it operates through an indirect pathway.
Using a prospective longitudinal design, an intentional subsample of children from the 1999 kindergarten cohort of the Montreal Longitudinal Preschool Study (Quebec) from in...
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PMID: 20723278
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We performed a 2-step cluster analysis based on the above-mentioned personality variables. Clinical data were compared across clusters.
Four clusters were generated. Type I (disorganized and emotionally unstable) showed schizotypic traits, high impulsiveness, substance and alcohol abuse, and early a...
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PMID: 20723277
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The lifetime prevalence rates of pathological gambling and problem gambling were 0.8% and 3.0%, respectively. Of pathological gamblers, 79.1% had at least one psychiatric illness in comparison to the control level of 28.1%, and 62.0% of problem gamblers also had psychiatric conditions. Associations...
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PMID: 19636479
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Like most human behaviors, saving and collecting possessions can range from totally normal and adaptive to excessive or pathological. Hoarding, or compulsive hoarding, are some of the more commonly used terms to refer to this excessive form of collectionism. Hoarding is highly prevalent and, when se...
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PMID: 20189280
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We conducted a prospective, single-blind, parallel group, controlled trial to evaluate effects of written emotional expression in patients receiving intensive treatment for cocaine dependence in a residential-unit setting. Randomization to the emotional expression treatment produced changes in blood...
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PMID: 20441458
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We specifically examined the effects of these personality traits and emotional context on (a) overall behavior dyscontrol (slower reaction times [RTs] to emotional blocks relative to neutral blocks) and (b) duration of the dyscontrol (persistence or habituation of the effect of emotional context on...
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PMID: 20455613
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We provide an overview of the different measures of impulsivity used across human and animal studies, evidence that the construct of impulsivity may be better studied in the context of more meaningful subfacets, and recommendations for how research in this direction may provide for better consilienc...
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PMID: 20148781
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A combined motivational interviewing and CBT program applied in group or individual format can improve PG behaviors, as well as gambling correlates....
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PMID: 20152065
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We examined the construct validity of the FD and SCI scales of the PPI-R as markers of these constructs with a range of theoretically relevant correlates assessed across multiple domains in a sample of 200 forensic psychiatric inpatients. Results were generally, though not uniformly, consistent with...
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PMID: 20230149
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Neurologist and other healthcare professionals treating PD patients need to be aware of behavioral and emotional manifestations of the disease. This will lead to an appropriate patient management and better adaptation of the familial and social situation....
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PMID: 20205141
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Urinary disorders are the most frequent non-motor symptom in Parkinson's disease. They usually present as nocturia, urgency and increased mictional frequency (pollakiuria). Preferred treatment is with anticholinergic agents. Sexual dysfunction is a frequent complaint in patients with Parkinson. It h...
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PMID: 20205139
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Recent research has indicated that developmental changes in the personality traits of neuroticism and impulsivity correlate with changes in problem drinking during emerging and young adulthood. However, it remains unclear what potential mechanisms, or mediators, could account for these associations....
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PMID: 20141246
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In the study, the authors examined the effects of smoking deprivation, anticipation of smoking, and actual smoking on the craving to smoke. Flight attendants who were light to heavy smokers rated their craving to smoke at predetermined time points during a 2-way short flight (each leg 3-5.5 hr) and...
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PMID: 20141262
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We examined rates and clinical correlates of comorbid ICDs in 70 consecutive child and adolescent subjects with lifetime DSM-IV OCD (32.9% females; mean age = 13.8 +/- 2.9 years). Comorbidity data were obtained with structured clinical interviews using DSM-IV criteria. OCD severity was assessed with...
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PMID: 20004481
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We used a Virtual Reality version of the Multiple Errand Test in order to evaluate decision-making ability in 12 patients and 14 controls. Patients with Parkinson's disease, even if not-demented, showed strategies full of errors, suggesting that impulse control disorder, very frequent in course of d...
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PMID: 20543277
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Virtual Reality environments that reproduce typical contexts associated with tobacco use may be useful for aiding smoking cessation. The main objective of this study was to assess the capacity of eight environments to produce the craving to smoke and determine the relation of craving to nicotine dep...
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PMID: 20543283
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Of all respondents, 16.6% endorsed lifetime PSP with noticeable skin damage; 60.3% of these denied picking secondary to an inflammation or itch from a medical condition. One fifth to one quarter of those with lifetime PSP not related to a medical condition endorsed tension or nervousness before pick...
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PMID: 20152300
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Behavioural aspects of about 150 patients are described, and include a variable degree of mental retardation, impulsivity, distractibility, instability of mood and stereotypies. In general, patients with RTS are described as sociable and friendly. Information about brain pathology is virtually absen...
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PMID: 19940543
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To determine the frequency of impulse control disorders (ICDs) with the use of dopaminergic agents in restless legs syndrome (RLS).
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PMID: 20120624
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We reported that bipolar disorder is often overdiagnosed in psychiatric outpatients. An important question not examined in that article was what diagnoses were given to the patients who had been overdiagnosed with bipolar disorder. In the present report from the MIDAS project, we examined whether th...
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PMID: 19646366
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The construct of emotion dysregulation increasingly has been used to explain diverse psychopathologies across the lifespan. The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS; K. L. Gratz & L. Roemer, 2004) represents the most comprehensive measure of the construct to date and exhibits good reliabil...
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PMID: 19947794
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Although pathological gambling (PG) is regarded in the 4th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) as a unitary diagnostic construct, it is likely composed of distinct subtypes. In the current report, the authors used cluster anal...
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PMID: 19947793
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Among adolescents and adults, there appear to be at least four different personality traits that dispose individuals to rash or ill-advised action: sensation seeking, negative urgency, lack of planning, and lack of perseverance. The four are only moderately correlated and they appear...
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PMID: 19955108
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A substantial proportion of individuals in treatment for psychotic disorders report past-year gambling problems. Patients with co-occurring alcohol use problems and depression may be at particularly high risk. These findings suggest the need for improved prevention and treatment efforts related to p...
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PMID: 19538900
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Mayumi Tominaga,
Norito Kawakami,
Yutaka Ono,
Yoshibumi Nakane,
Yoshikazu Nakamura,
Hisateru Tachimori,
Noboru Iwata,
Hidenori Uda,
Hideyuki Nakane,
Makoto Watanabe,
Yoichi Naganuma,
Toshiaki A Furukawa,
Yukihiro Hata,
Masayo Kobayashi,
Yuko Miyake,
Tadashi Takeshima and
Takehiko Kikkawa
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The present study confirmed lower prevalence of drug use in Japan than in other countries, such as the United States. However, the non-medical use of psychotropic drugs seems more common in Japan....
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PMID: 19190833
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Five studies tested the hypothesis that self-regulatory failure is an important predictor of intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. Study 1 participants were far more likely to experience a violent impulse during conflictual interaction with their romantic partner than they were to enact a vi...
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PMID: 19686003
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Gambling or gaming is a common term for a group of various games, activities and behavior that involve wagering money on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money, i.e., a player risks and hopes to get back what he/she had gambled, or to win more. When th...
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PMID: 19860133
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Particularly for the kleptomania subtype with comorbid ADHD and / or personality disorder, DBT may be a promising approach. In addition, duloxetine as a serotonin-epinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) might fit into a complementary treatment strategy....
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PMID: 18924062
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Few studies investigate gambling problems at the symptom level; even fewer investigate how symptom patterns change throughout the course of a gambling disorder. The current study utilized the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC; Grant et al., 2004) to investigat...
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PMID: 19769436
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Although craving is an important feature of problem gambling, there is a paucity of research investigating craving to gamble. A major stumbling block for craving research in gambling has been the lack of a methodologically sound, multidimensional measure of gambling-related craving. This article rep...
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PMID: 19769435
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A community survey in 4,426 adults was undertaken as part of the World Mental Health Survey Initiative reporting the prevalence and risk factors for suicide-related outcomes in Colombia. Lifetime prevalence estimates of suicide ideation, plans, attempts, and risk factors for suicide-related outcomes...
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PMID: 19792982
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This study sought to examine possible differences in phenomenological features and/or symptom severity of children diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and a comorbid grooming condition (i.e., skin picking and trichotillomania). A total of 202 children receiving a primary diagnosis of...
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PMID: 19345061
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This is the first study to report a unique association between inattention symptoms and behavioral measures of choice impulsivity and delay aversion. The findings indicate the importance of the primary constitutional processes that underlie choice impulsivity and their potential role in behavioral i...
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PMID: 19564796
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Behavioural performance in the Go/NoGo task was compared with caregiver and teacher reports of inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity in 1,151 children (N = 557 boys; N = 594 girls) age 9- 10-years-old. Errors of commission (NoGo errors) were significantly correlated with symptom counts of hypera...
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PMID: 19812711
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Previous studies have demonstrated that insecure attachment patterns and a trait disposition toward negative affect and impulsivity are both associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD) features. According to attachment theory, insecure attachment patterns impart greater risk for the malada...
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PMID: 19538081
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We tested the hypothesis that history of mild to moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with higher scores on psychometrically valid measures of aggression and impulsivity in both normal control (NC), and personality disordered (PD), participants. Participants were 458 research voluntee...
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PMID: 19538079
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Although evidence that amphetamine use is related to increased levels of aggression continues to grow, the underlying processes or mechanisms remain somewhat elusive. In this review, three possible underlying factors are considered. Neurotoxic, pharmacological effects of amphetamine on the dopaminer...
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PMID: 19339888
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All BIS-11 subscale scores were higher in bipolar disorder than in comparison subjects. There were less consistent independent effects of education and age. Elevated BIS-11 scores were associated with early onset, more frequent episodes of illness, and a history of suicide attempts. These relationsh...
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PMID: 19419385
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Tryptophan depletion facilitated selection of more intense shocks, on average, in both groups. Patients with IED were also more self-aggressive overall than healthy volunteers. No IED by drink condition interactions were found. CONCLUSION: Experimentally lowered 5-HT bioavailability enhances overall...
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PMID: 18946662
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We report 3 cases of impulse control disorders (ICDs) that developed in patients with Parkinson disease treated with the novel dopamine agonist, rotigotine. METHODS: Three patients were identified retrospectively who developed symptoms of an ICD while taking rotigotine. The ICD symptoms developed at...
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PMID: 18978496
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Significant interactions indicated that bupropion reduced the effects of acute abstinence on smoking urges in the presence of neutral cues, only in those who intended to quit. Bupropion and intention to quit did not reduce the effects of acute abstinence on urges in the presence of smoking cues and...
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PMID: 19246631
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The authors examined cross-lagged links among gambling, substance use, theft, and violence from midadolescence to young adulthood and whether behavioral disinhibition, deviant peers, and parental supervision as common risk factors explain or moderate those links. In 2 community sampl...
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PMID: 19290693
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A random telephone survey was conducted with 2,274 United States residents aged 14 to 21. Analyses were performed to assess the relationship between the specific gambling games played and the extent of problem gambling symptoms. The forms of gambling that were most associated with ga...
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PMID: 19290694
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The purpose of the present study was to examine the mechanisms by which the motivational interview (MI) is an effective treatment for pathological gambling. Forty MIs with pathological gamblers were transcribed and coded for language content and strength of expression. As hypothesize...
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PMID: 19290696
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Elevated rates of comorbidity between binge eating and alcohol use problems have been widely documented. Prior studies have examined specific personality traits associated with the co-occurrence of these problems. The current study explores comprehensive personality factors that are...
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PMID: 19290698
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Of the 144 phone calls used in the analyses, 72 were from Asian American callers and 72 were from white callers who were matched on gender, education, income, marital/cohabitation status, and age. Race-related differences were observed in forms of gambling problems, psychiatric problems secondary to...
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PMID: 19238123
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The management of early Parkinson's disease (PD) involves the treatment of motor symptoms, and, increasingly, non-motor symptoms. Given the fast pace of clinical research in PD, clinicians are faced with the challenge of integrating the latest findings into the ongoing care of individual PD patients...
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PMID: 19176961
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Cognitive reconstructing is a major component of cognitive and cognitive-behavioural therapies. Cognitive reconstructing means identification and modification of cognitive distortions. Research into this field has shown that cognitive distortions about gambling are clearly implicated in the developm...
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PMID: 19542568
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The efficacy of naltrexone treatment for pathological gambling has been replicated in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, confirmatory study. For mood stabilizers, whereas carbamazepine and topiramate continued to produce positive results, olanzapine failed to show superior outcomes compared with pl...
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PMID: 19122538
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