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Our new study suggests IED is really out there and that a lot of people have it." Dr. Emil Coccaro, the U. of C's chief of psychiatry, said. "That's the he first step for the public to actually get treated for it, because if you don't think it's really a disorder, you're never going to get treated or it. "We know there's an awful lot of young people who have it today and older people tell us they've never had it," he said. "Whether they're lying or not we don't know. But, obviously, now that it's on our radar screen, we're going to be monitoring it very carefully." "The problem was when it got to the point of rage, than it just took over; there was no rational thought," said [Terry], who asked that his last name not be published. "We would fight maybe once a week. I physically started...
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CHICAGO (AP) - To you, that angry, horn-blasting tailgater is suffering from road rage. But doctors have another name for it - intermittent explosive disorder - and a new study suggests it is far more common than they realized, affecting up to 16 million Americans. People think it's bad behavior and that you just need an attitude adjustment, but what they don't know ... is that there's a biology and cognitive science to this," said Dr. Emil Coccaro, chairman of psychiatry at the University of Chicago's medical school.
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Clear and convincing evidence supported the trial court's decision to grant the permanent custody motion of Franklin County Children's Services where (1) appellant's case plan required her to obtain anger management counseling to alleviate her intermittent explosive disorder and her problems with anger and patience, but appellant failed to complete such counseling, (2) the child had been in the custody of FCCS for 12 or more months out of a consecutive 22-month period, and (3) the child was bonded to his foster parents and needed permanent placement.
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LONG BEACH - An expert witness testified Wednesday that a twice- convicted murderer facing the possibility of the death sentence suffered head injuries and brain damage as well as various mental disorders. Neuropsychologist Michael Perrotti testified that 27-year-old Santiago Martinez Jr. has been diagnosed with epilepsy, appears to suffer from intermittent explosive disorder, has a below-average IQ, is profoundly depressed with elements of psychosis and shows characteristics of multiple personality disorder and post- traumatic stress disorder.
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The Veterans Administration's can't be liable under a theory of failure to warn for murders committed by a former mental patient after his release - but it may be liable under a theory of gross negligence, the 3rd Circuit has ruled. A Navy veteran entered a residential housing facility on Veterans Administration property grounds. He received counseling and was diagnosed as having intermittent explosive disorder, based on his history of domestic violence, symptoms of depression and past suicide attempt. After a violent altercation with another veteran, the man was made to leave the facility. Eighteen hours later, he killed two of his children and two of their friends before killing himself.
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WASHINGTON - "Road rage" is now an official disease - Intermittent Explosive Disorder, the shrinks call it. According to a study funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health, something on the order of 16 million Americans suffer from IED. Inadequate production of the brain chemical serotonin leaves victims unable to regulate their moods properly - and thus, their behavior on the nation's crowded highways.
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HAGW will draft policies to spread the greenhouse effect's benefits through increased bovine flatulence, the maximum use of fossil fuel, cigar smoking in public places, and the addition of more rooms to former Vice President al-Gore's colossal estate in Nashville, Tennessee. Back in the United States, Democratic Party Chairman Dr. Howard Dean again demonstrated that he is among the estimated 16 million Americans who suffer what the National Institute for Mental Health calls "Explosive Rage Disorder.
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It's not road rage; it's 'explosive disorder' CHICAGO - To you, that angry, horn-blasting tailgater is suffering from road rage. Doctors have another name for it, though - intermittent explosive disorder - and a new study suggests it is far more common than they realized, affecting as many as 16 million Americans.
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To you, that angry, horn-blasting tailgater is suffering from road rage. But doctors have another name for it -- intermittent explosive disorder -- and a new study suggests it is far more common than they realized, affecting up to 16 million Americans. People think it's bad behavior and that you just need an attitude adjustment, but what they don't know is that there's a biology and cognitive science to this," said Dr. Emil Coccaro, chairman of psychiatry at the University of Chicago's medical school.
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CHICAGO - One in 20 Americans might be susceptible to uncontrollable anger attacks in which they lash out in road rage, spousal abuse or other severe transgressions that are totally unjustified, researchers from Harvard and the University of Chicago have found. Their nationwide study found that the condition called intermittent explosive disorder, or IED, is not the rare occurrence that psychiatrists had previously thought. Four percent to five percent of people in the study were found to have physically assaulted someone, threatened bodily harm or destroyed property in a rage an average of five times a year.
