Book contents
- Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology
- Additional material
- Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface to the Fifth Edition
- CME Information
- 1 Chemical Neurotransmission
- 2 Transporters, Receptors, and Enzymes as Targets of Psychopharmacological Drug Action
- 3 Ion Channels as Targets of Psychopharmacological Drug Action
- 4 Psychosis, Schizophrenia, and the Neurotransmitter Networks Dopamine, Serotonin, and Glutamate
- 5 Targeting Dopamine and Serotonin Receptors for Psychosis, Mood, and Beyond: So-Called “Antipsychotics”
- 6 Mood Disorders and the Neurotransmitter Networks Norepinephrine and γ-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA)
- 7 Treatments for Mood Disorders: So-Called “Antidepressants” and “Mood Stabilizers”
- 8 Anxiety, Trauma, and Treatment
- 9 Chronic Pain and Its Treatment
- 10 Disorders of Sleep and Wakefulness and Their Treatment: Neurotransmitter Networks for Histamine and Orexin
- 11 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Its Treatment
- 12 Dementia: Causes, Symptomatic Treatments, and the Neurotransmitter Network Acetylcholine
- 13 Impulsivity, Compulsivity, and Addiction
- Suggested Reading and Selected References
- Index
13 - Impulsivity, Compulsivity, and Addiction
- Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology
- Additional material
- Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface to the Fifth Edition
- CME Information
- 1 Chemical Neurotransmission
- 2 Transporters, Receptors, and Enzymes as Targets of Psychopharmacological Drug Action
- 3 Ion Channels as Targets of Psychopharmacological Drug Action
- 4 Psychosis, Schizophrenia, and the Neurotransmitter Networks Dopamine, Serotonin, and Glutamate
- 5 Targeting Dopamine and Serotonin Receptors for Psychosis, Mood, and Beyond: So-Called “Antipsychotics”
- 6 Mood Disorders and the Neurotransmitter Networks Norepinephrine and γ-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA)
- 7 Treatments for Mood Disorders: So-Called “Antidepressants” and “Mood Stabilizers”
- 8 Anxiety, Trauma, and Treatment
- 9 Chronic Pain and Its Treatment
- 10 Disorders of Sleep and Wakefulness and Their Treatment: Neurotransmitter Networks for Histamine and Orexin
- 11 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Its Treatment
- 12 Dementia: Causes, Symptomatic Treatments, and the Neurotransmitter Network Acetylcholine
- 13 Impulsivity, Compulsivity, and Addiction
- Suggested Reading and Selected References
- Index
Summary
Impulsivity and compulsivity are symptoms that cut across many psychiatric disorders. Some conditions with impulsivity as a prominent feature have already been discussed, including mania (Chapter 4); attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; Chapter 11), and agitation in dementia (Chapter 12). Several other disorders in which impulsivity and/or compulsivity are core features are discussed in this chapter. Full clinical descriptions and formal criteria for how to diagnose the numerous known diagnostic entities discussed here should be obtained by consulting standard diagnostic and reference sources. Here we emphasize what is known or hypothesized about the brain circuits and neurotransmitters mediating impulsivity and compulsivity, and how engaging neurotransmitters at various nodes in impulsivity/compulsivity networks can result in successful psychopharmacological treatments.
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- Stahl's Essential PsychopharmacologyNeuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications, pp. 538 - 578Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022