Neurochemical and Hormonal Contributors to Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder

Impulsive-compulsive sexual behavior.

Impulsive-compulsive sexual behavior is a little studied clinical phenomenon which affects approximately 5% to 6% of the population. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition-Text Revision, it is classified as an impulse control disorder not otherwise specified or a sexual disorder not otherwise specified. It may be placed in a possible new category in the Dia...

Stereotypic Behavior and Compulsive Disorder

When an animal persistently and repetitively engages in a single behavior that serves no apparent function, the behavior is called a stereotypy. When the stereotypic behavior persists regardless of the environment, compulsive disorder (CD) is diagnosed. CD occurs in many species and is a common diagnosis in behavior services. In human medicine, the more complete term, obsessive-compulsive disor...

Sexual dysfunction in obsessive compulsive disorder and panic disorder.

BACKGROUND Clinical research has provided conflicting evidence regarding sexual dysfunction in patients with OCD and PD. This study was undertaken to assess and compare certain parameters of sexual functioning in OCD and PD patients. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study population consisted of 80 patients between 20 and 60 years of age with a diagnosis of OCD or PD who were followed and treated at ...

Sexual obsessions in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Brain-behavior relationships in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Advances in neuroimaging have led to a greater understanding of brain-behavior relationships in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This article provides an updated review and analysis of the structural and functional neuroimaging studies in OCD published to date and discusses how evidence from various types of neuroimaging studies has been synthesized to generate and test hypotheses regarding...