Reduced ability to control, or a failure to resist a temptation, urge, or impulse. Examples include disregard for social conventions, general impulsivity, and poor risk assessment.
Synonyms: Self-control Impulse control disorders
Term information
- SNOMEDCT_US:247977003
- UMLS:C0424296
Disinhibition affects motor, instinctual, emotional, cognitive, and perceptual aspects, exhibiting signs and symptoms similar to the diagnostic criteria for mania. Hypersexuality, hyperphagia, and aggressive outbursts are indicative of disinhibited instinctual drives.
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Term relations
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characteristic of some social inhibition and
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