Increased urgency is a major contributor to aggression in patients with schizophrenia, suggests research published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.
Both positive and negative urgency were significantly increased in schizophrenia patients versus mentally healthy controls and accounted for up to 18% of the variance in aggression over and above what was explained by being in the patient versus control group.
Editorialist Philip Szeszko (The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, USA) says the study “highlights the underappreciated role of urgency in aggression among individuals with schizophrenia and the concomitant underlying neural circuits that may mediate this relationship.”
He adds: “For clinicians treating individuals with schizophrenia, it is a reminder that impulsivity and urgency may be risk factors for aggressive behavior.”
http://www.medwirenews.com/47/105894/Psychiatry/Urgency_breeds_aggression_in_schizophrenia_patients.html
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Urgent for what? I don’t know what “urgent” means here. What’s the context of “urgent” here?
I didn’t read the article however I’m guessing it’s to do with low impulse control or the need/want to do something now. To act or react in the moment with a sense of urgency.
Urgency: requiring swift action.
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I never thought of this… but it does make sense. Urgency does sort of have an out of control feeling. Like your falling behind… if something doesn’t happen right NOW then dire consequences will occur.
This is a interesting idea.
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My son has a problem with this-low impulse control.
Recently, I noticed he has been counting to 10 before he reacts to something.
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My psychiatric history notes lack of impulse control but I was verbally aggressive not physically and the vast majority of that was down to poor treatment and conflict with the pdoc and mental health team. A lot involved frustration at the level of help and support given.
I think as you get older the impulse control improves.
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