8 Interesting Facts of Conduct Disorder Conduct disorder is a disruptive behavior disorder characterized by a repetitive and persistent pattern of aggressive, defiant, or antisocial behaviors that violates the basic rights of others or societal rules, leading to a significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational life Emerges during childhood or adolescence and presents with …
Treatment Resistant Generalized Anxiety Disorder •Anxiety refers to a state of anticipation of alarming future events, whereas fear is a result of perceived imminent threat. The former is the same distressing experience of dread and foreboding as the latter, except that it derives from an unknown internal stimulus or is inappropriate to the reality of the …
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Internet Addiction The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) states that Addiction/Internet gaming disorder (IGD) applies to excessive gaming through Internet and non-Internet sources such as playing on personal computers, consoles, or handheld devices. Synonyms Internet use disorder Gaming Disorder How common is Internet Addiction? Incidence •Estimates range from 0.8% to 11.8% in …
Factitious Disorder Factitious disorder refers to a patient’s deliberate deception of others in order to appear ill, impaired, or injured. Individuals with factitious disorder either falsify signs or symptoms of an illness (e.g., manipulating laboratory samples) or actually induce injury or disease (e.g., injecting themselves with a microbe or poison). The primary aim is thought …
Lesions associated with obsessive compulsive behavior The majority of structural lesions associated with the development of obsessive compulsive behavior have involved the frontal lobe and/or frontal-basal ganglia network connections.
What is catatonia? Catatonia has been described as a state of apparent unresponsiveness to external stimuli in a person who is apparently awake. DSM-5 characterizes catatonia as resistance to instructions (negativism); motoric immobility or excessive motor activity (catatonic excitement); a complete lack of verbal and motor responses (mutism and stupor); repeated stereotyped movements; peculiarities of voluntary …
New diagnostic criteria for schizoaffective disorder The diagnostic criteria for schizoaffective disorder in DSM-5 include an uninterrupted period during which there is a major mood episode (depressive or manic) concurrent to meeting the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia. Additionally, delusions and hallucinations should be present in the absence of a mood episode for ≥2 weeks. The …
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