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Descriptor English: Compulsive Behavior
Descriptor Spanish: Conducta Compulsiva
Descriptor conducta compulsiva
Scope note: Conducta en la que se realiza un acto persistente y repetidamente sin aportación de recompensa o placer. Generalmente se trata de un acto poco importante, con una conducta circunscrita, casi ritual, que aun no genera alteraciones patológicas. Como ejemplos de conductas compulsivas tenemos la costumbre de girar constantemente un mechón de pelo, la comprobación constante de algo, no querer el cambio en monedas, la alineación de cuadros ladeados, etc.
Descriptor Portuguese: Comportamento Compulsivo
Descriptor French: Comportement compulsif
Entry term(s): Behavior, Compulsive
Behaviors, Compulsive
Compulsive Behaviors
Tree number(s): F01.145.527.100
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003192
Scope note: The behavior of performing an act persistently and repetitively without it leading to reward or pleasure. The act is usually a small, circumscribed behavior, almost ritualistic, yet not pathologically disturbing. Examples of compulsive behavior include twirling of hair, checking something constantly, not wanting pennies in change, straightening tilted pictures, etc.
Annotation: use Cat F3 qualif
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 68
History Note: 68
Related: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder MeSH
DeCS ID: 3223
Unique ID: D003192
NLM Classification: WM 176
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Date Established: 1968/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2002/07/02
Compulsive Behavior - Preferred
Concept UI M0004947
Scope note The behavior of performing an act persistently and repetitively without it leading to reward or pleasure. The act is usually a small, circumscribed behavior, almost ritualistic, yet not pathologically disturbing. Examples of compulsive behavior include twirling of hair, checking something constantly, not wanting pennies in change, straightening tilted pictures, etc.
Preferred term Compulsive Behavior
Entry term(s) Behavior, Compulsive
Behaviors, Compulsive
Compulsive Behaviors



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