Talk:Impulse-control disorder/Archive 1

internet addiction
Internet Addiction has, I believe, been linked to impulse control disorder, too. Similar to gambling. Pigkeeper 21:32, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Same thing for procrastination. 88.72.60.247 (talk) 01:05, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Category?
Maybe impulse control disorders should be an article category, but I don't know if it contains too few disorders or not... Pafferguy (talk) 19:07, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Body focused disorder correction
The top section lists 2 of 3 Body focused disorders, so I'm making correction to point to the Body focused page while also mentioning all 3. Eric R. Meyers (Ermeyers) (talk) 07:17, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Evaluation for Psych 101
This article needs to expand upon the disorders that are mentioned. The reader doesn't learn any sort of treatment, prevention, or information other than what the disorders are. The article should offer a solution to the problem presented. It could be improved with some research and organization. This article needs to have appropriate citations added to make it more of a reliable source. There is a lot of potential with this article. The behaviors are interesting, and I think an informative article on this topic, Impulse Control Disorder, would be beneficial to Wikipedia. EYarde1 (talk) 18:16, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Good evaluation. I agree this would be a good article for you to improve. --MTHarden (talk) 20:48, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
 * If you intend to expand the article, please read Wikipedia's manual of style for medical articles and for sourcing of medical articles; text should be based on high quality, recent, secondary peer reviews, and preferable organized according to MEDMOS. Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 15:20, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Removed uncited text for rewrite
"Behavioral addictions are compared to substance use disorders and they often respond very well to the same treatments. Therefor, impulse control disorders usually have the same treatment. There are two different treatment options. The first treatment option is psychosocial and the second is pharmacological. The psychosocial treatment is mostly used to treat substance use disorders. Although, it has been successfully used to treat impulse control disorders such as, pathological gambling, compulsive sexual behavior, kleptomania, pathologic skin picking, and compulsive buying. Part of this treatment is psychosocial interventions. This treatment is a relapse prevention that encourages self-restraint by identifying patterns of abuse, avoiding and coping with situations and making lifestyle changes that reinforce healthier behaviors. Successful psychosocial treatments will pinpoint exposure and response prevention strategies. If considering pharmacotherapy treatment, you have to know if you have any other psychiatric conditions, such as affective and addictive disorders. The alertness of bipolar or other addictive disorders, will determine the best choice of medication, because certain medications have been effective for specific disorders. There are no specific medications currently approved for the treatment of impulse control disorder, but some medications have shown positive effectiveness when treating substance use disorders as well as treating behavioral addictions. “Naltrexone, a mu-opioid receptor antagonist approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of alcoholism and opioid dependence, has shown efficacy in controlled clinical trials for the treatment of pathological gambling and kleptomania and promise in uncontrolled studies of compulsive buying, compulsive sexual behavior, internet addiction, and pathologic skin picking. These findings suggest that mu-opioid receptors play a similar role in behavioral addictions as they do in substance use disorders, possibly through modulation of the dopaminergic mesolimbic pathway. In contrast, the short-acting mu-opioid receptor antagonist naloxone exacerbates symptoms in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Medications that alter glutamatergic activity have also been used to treat both behavioral addictions and substance dependence. Topiramate, an anticonvulsant which blocks the AMPA subtype of glutamate receptor (among other actions), has shown promise in open-label studies of pathological gambling, compulsive buying, and compulsive skin picking.”"

I've removed the above uncited text for a rewrite to address several problems:
 * 1) The text is uncited-- a citation was indicated in an edit summary (it belongs in ref tags), but it was to a dead link.
 * 2) The text includes direct quotes which must be cited (further, we don't use curly quotes, and they are an indication of copy-paste).
 * 3) Because there appears to be some copy-paste, it is hard to evauluate this text for copyvio without access to the source.
 * 4) The text was not added in any sort of sections (see WP:MEDMOS), nor was it incorporated with other text already in the article addressing similar.
 * 5) Some of the text needs to be deciphered and rewritten; one example only:  "This treatment is a relapse prevention that encourages self-restraint by identifying patterns of abuse, avoiding and coping with  situations and making lifestyle changes that reinforce healthier behaviors."
 * 6) There is a very long, uncited quote but we have no indication if that comes from a primary source or a secondary review (see WP:MEDRS for correct sourcing of Wikipedia medical articles).
 * 7) Some of the text is not written in encyclopedic tone, sample: "If considering pharmacotherapy treatment, you have to know if you have any other psychiatric conditions, such as affective and addictive disorders" (see WP:MEDMOS).  We don't write "to" the patient, and treatment is redundant to pharmacotherapy.  And you don't really have to know if you have other conditions to *consider* treatment-- so something is wrong with that sentence structure.

Please provide the source and then we can begin to figure out what you want to say here and how it can be added correctly. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 15:30, 26 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I've now removed a second copyvio, text that also need to be rewritten in our own words and to conform to WP:MEDMOS and WP:MEDRS. There are multiple grammatical errors, the text is not correctly cited, some of the text is indecipherable, and some of it doesn't pertain to this article. Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 18:07, 27 September 2011 (UTC)


 * And for the third time. Moving on.  Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 13:48, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Review
I have removed uncited original research, including a non-MEDRS with text placed in the wrong section.

Please see sections suggested for medical articles and correct sourcing for medical statements; here is a secondary recent review source from which the article can be expanded:



Sandy Georgia (Talk) 13:50, 3 October 2011 (UTC)