Compulsivity
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Definition
- Compulsivity refers to a tendency toward repetitive, habitual actions, repeated despite adverse consequences.[1]
- It has been suggested that impulsivity and compulsivity might constitute opposite ends of a spectrum. [2]
Related disease
- ↑ Robbins TW, Gillan CM, Smith DG, de Wit S, Ersche KD (2012). Neurocognitive endophenotypes of impulsivity and compulsivity: towards dimensional psychiatry. Trends I Cognitive Science 16, 81–91.
- ↑ Stein DJ, Hollander E, Liebowitz MR (1993). Neurobiology of impulsivity and the impulse control disorders. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 5, 9–17