irritability
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Irritability is the excitatory ability that living organisms have to respond to changes in their environment. The term is used for both the physiological reaction to stimuli and for the pathological, abnormal or excessive sensitivity to stimuli.
Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Irritability
- Medical condition (new).specialty
- Psychiatry
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Research
37,458 papers- Irritability: A concept analysis.International journal of mental health nursing · 2023
- Irritability in Huntington's Disease.Journal of Huntington's disease · 2020
- How and Why Are Irritability and Depression Linked?Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America · 2021
- Irritability in Children and Adolescents.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2017
- Irritability in Mood Disorders: Neurobiological Underpinnings and Implications for Pharmacological Intervention.CNS drugs · 2021
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- ICPC 2 ID
- P04
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- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000654
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C50623
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- Signs and symptoms
- Neurophysiology
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Irritability is the excitatory ability that living organisms have to respond to changes in their environment. The term is used for both the physiological reaction to stimuli and for the pathological, abnormal or excessive sensitivity to stimuli.
When reflecting human emotion and behavior, it is commonly defined as the tendency to react to stimuli with negative affective states (especially anger) and temper outbursts, which can be aggressive. Distressing or impairing irritability is important from a mental health perspective as a common symptom of concern and predictor of clinical outcomes.