Impulsive - Compulsive buying disorder: Clinical overview

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 259-266

  Dell'Osso, Bernardo ^a   Allen, Andrea ^b   Altamura, A Carlo ^a   Buoli, Massimiliano ^a   Hollander, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Impulse control disorder not otherwise specified (ICD NOS); Impulsive Compulsive buying disorder (ICBD)

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUVOXAMINE; MOOD STABILIZER; NALMEFENE; NALTREXONE; PLACEBO; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

AGITATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; COMPULSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; IMPULSIVE COMPULSIVE BUYING DISORDER; IMPULSIVENESS; INTERNET ADDICTION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MOOD DISORDER; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SEDATION; SELF HELP; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 40749123021     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670701881561     Document Type: Review

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