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Pharmacological Management of Impulsivity and Compulsivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

G. Dom*
Affiliation:
Antwerp university ua and hospital uza, collaborative psychiatric research institute, Boechout, Belgium

Abstract

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Increasingly patients present themselves to psychiatrists and other care providers with a specific request for treatment of one or more behavioral addictions. From a pathogenic point of view impulsivity and compulsivity are important drivers of these behavioral disorders, and as such may represent a target of pharmacological and broader neurobiological, e.g. Neuro-stimulation, treatment. Although currently treatment as usual has a focus on psychosocial and cognitive behavioral interventions, interest is growing toward the pharmacological interventions. In the presentation a state of the art will be presented regarding the pharmacological treatment of behavioral addictions, with a focus on Gambling Disorder and Gaming Disorder.

Disclosure of interest

Member Advisory Board Lundbeck - Belgium.

Received funding from Belgian LOTTO for research into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Gambling Disorder.

Type
Symposium: impulsivity, compulsivity, and behavioural addictions
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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