Glossary for Intermittent Explosive Disorder

• Aggression: Overly aggressive behavior.
• Anti-Social Personality Disorder: A psychiatric condition characterized by chronic behavioral and social problems which often involves criminal behaviour.
• Borderline Personality Disorder: Mental condition with behavioral and emotional problems.
• Conduct Disorder: Behavioral disorder with antisocial behaviors
• Delirium: Severe state of mental confusion
• Dementia: Various mental impairment conditions.
• Drug abuse: Addiction to any of various illicit drugs.
• Impulse Control Disorders: Disorders where people have difficulty controlling their impulses
• Mania: Inappropriate euphoric mood
• Mental illness: Any psychological syndrome
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder: A behavioral problem that occurs in children and involves persistent disobedience, defiance and hostility towards authority figures. The behavioral problem is greater than the normal pattern of child misbehaviors. The severity of the problem affects the child's ability to perform satisfactorily in home, school and community environments.
• Psychiatric disorders: Any condition that affects ones mind
• Psychological disorders: Any condition that affects ones mind
• Schizophrenia: Psychiatric disorder with delusional beliefs and hallucinations.
• Temporal lobe epilepsy: A condition which is characterized by complex partial seizures