Psychiatry: Disruptive, Impulse Control and Behavior Disorders
Psychiatry: Disruptive, Impulse Control and Behavior Disorders — Expert Level Reference
How it begins
Un análisis exhaustivo y de nivel experto sobre la fisiopatología, neurobiología molecular, espectro psicopatológico, criterios DSM-5-TR / CIE-11 y protocolos integrados de intervención terapéutica en los trastornos del comportamiento perturbador.
What it covers
- Fundamental concepts, taxonomy and dimensional spectrum
- · Evolution and nomenclature in diagnostic systems
- Neurobiology of self-regulation and impulse control
- · Frontostriatal circuits and top-down control
- · Subcortical structures and value processing
- · Neurotransmission systems and molecular neurochemistry
- Genetics, epigenetics and environmental determinants of risk
- · Genetic architecture and candidate genes
- · Gene-Environment Interactions (G×E): The paradigm of plasticity
- · Epigenetic mechanisms in development
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD): precision clinical analysis
- · DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria
- · Dimensional structure and evolutionary trajectories
- · Epidemiological differentiation and normative limits
- Conduct Disorder (CD): the core of serious disruption
- · Diagnostic criteria and symptomatic classification
- · Subtypes according to age of onset
- · The specifier "With limited prosocial emotions" (Calo-Unemotional Traits - CU)
- · Terrie Moffitt's Taxonomy of Development
- Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED)
- · DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria
- · Pathophysiology of explosiveness
- Pyromania: the compulsive fascination with fire
- · DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria
- · Psychodynamics and forensic analysis
- Kleptomania: the impulsiveness of unmotivated appropriation
- · DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria
- · The spectrum of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) versus the Addictive Spectrum
- Other disruptive spectrum and impulse control disorders
- · Unspecified Disruptive, Impulse Control and Conduct Disorder
- · Kleptomania versus compulsive buying and other impulsive spectrums
- Diagnostic evaluation, psychometrics and examination methodology
- · The expert-level structured clinical interview
- · Psychometric tools and screening scales
- Differential diagnosis and complex comorbidities
- · ODD vs. Conduct Disorder (CD) vs. DMDD
- · The overlap between ADHD and disruptive disorders
- · Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and disruptive behaviors
- Evidence-based pharmacotherapy: use algorithms
- · Atypical neuroleptics (second generation antipsychotics)
- · Stimulants and Non-Stimulants to control impulsivity
- · Mood stabilizers and serotonergic agents
- · Reference pharmacological monographs for behavior control
- Psychotherapeutic, family and behavioral interventions of choice
- · Parent Management Training (PMT)
- · Multisystemic Therapy (MST) for severe Conduct Disorder
- · Collaborative and Proactive Solutions Therapy (CPS - Ross Greene)
- Ethical, legal and forensic psychiatry aspects of disruption
- · Criminal imputability and the ability to understand illegality
- · Informed consent and assent in minors
- · Institutionalization and involuntary confinement due to dangerousness
- Prognosis, prevention, long-term evolution and RDoC integration
- · Longitudinal evolution: the antisocial spectrum
- · Evidence-based prevention models
- · Integration of Disruptive Disorders into the RDoC Framework (Research Domain Criteria)
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- Subject
- Psychiatry
- Category
- Clinical Specialties
- Type
- Study Guide
- Sections
- 55
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-02