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Descriptor English:   Impulse Control Disorders 
Descriptor Spanish:   Trastorno de Control de Impulsos 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Transtornos do Controle de Impulsos 
Synonyms English:   Kleptomania
Intermittent Explosive Disorder  
Tree Number:   F03.500
Definition English:   Disorders whose essential features are the failure to resist an impulse, drive, or temptation to perform an act that is harmful to the individual or to others. Individuals experience an increased sense of tension prior to the act and pleasure, gratification or release of tension at the time of committing the act. 
See Related English:   Paraphilias
Substance-Related Disorders
 
History Note English:   KLEPTOMANIA was see under NEUROSES, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE 1963-80 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
BL blood CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced CL classification
CO complications DI diagnosis
DH diet therapy DT drug therapy
EC economics EN enzymology
EP epidemiology EH ethnology
ET etiology GE genetics
HI history IM immunology
ME metabolism MI microbiology
MO mortality NU nursing
PS parasitology PA pathology
PP physiopathology PC prevention & control
PX psychology RA radiography
RI radionuclide imaging RH rehabilitation
SU surgery TH therapy
US ultrasonography UR urine
VI virology  
Record Number:   7352 
Unique Identifier:   D007174 

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