title: Compulsivity and impulsivity-personal reflections: why now and why here?
abstract: This issue of CNS Spectrums contains a unique collection of manuscripts that examine compulsivity and impulsivity from a broad range of perspectives and helps to shape our evolving understanding of compulsivity and impulsivity as orthogonal symptom dimensions arising from parallel tightly regulated brain circuits giving rise to a spectrum of overlapping diagnostic categories.
authors.affiliation: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, and Spectrum Neuroscience and Treatment Institute, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hollander
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D003192:Compulsive Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology