Impulse Control Disorders: Clinical Characteristics and Pharmacological Management
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Portico in Annals of Clinical Psychiatry
- Vol. 16 (1) , 27-34
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10401230490281366
Abstract
This article reviews the current knowledge of the clinical characteristics and pharmacological management of pathological gambling, kleptomania, and compulsive buying. Specifically, the article summarizes the phenomenology and associated psychopathology of these disorders and presents study results of the various pharmacological agents used to treat these disorders--serotonin reuptake inhibitors, opioid antagonists, mood stabilizers, and atypical antipsychotics.Keywords
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