title: [Intermittent Explosive Disorder: A Controversial Diagnosis].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Intermittent explosive disorder (IED) is aan externalizing externalising disorder characterized characterised by recurrent aggression episodes. Even though this disorder was described several decades ago, and it carries personal and social consequences, there is little in the medical scientific literature on this. bibliographic production about it is scanty.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To perform a conceptualization conceptualisation of this disorder, through the review and bibliometric analysis of the available scientific articles.
  
  
  METHODS
  A search was performed in databases with the english English terms intermittent explosive disorder, impulse disorders control [MeSH], in combination with other terms. A bibliometric analysis in the GoPubMed® search engineer was also performed using all data obtained in the search. was also perfomed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  IED prevalence ranges from 1.4% to 7%, it presents more frequently during middle adolescence, and with more noticeable repercussions in men males than in womenfemales. The psychopathological core of IED is the impulsive aggressive behaviour that presents in the form of «attacks» that occurs in response to a lower precipitating stimulus. Scientific publications about IED are few and relatively recent, and the vast majority is provided bycomes from the United States (56.56%), and headed by a single author. This fact highlights the need to replicate the findings described about the IED in order to demonstrate the validity and reliability of its diagnostic criteria. It is possible that doubts about the existence of a diagnosis lead have led to such a scant literature about the IED.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Available studies about IED allow have allowed characterizing a group of subjects with episodes of impulsive aggression to be characterised, but this description requires replication in different latitudesneeds to be repeated in different areas.
authors: Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. Electronic address: juanp.zapata@udea.edu.co.
authors: Juan Pablo
authors: JP
authors: Zapata
authors: Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
authors: Juan David
authors: JD
authors: Palacio
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D007174:Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs
keywords: Aggression; Agresividad; Bibliometrics; Bibliometría; Impulse control disorder; Intermittent explosive disorder; Trastorno explosivo intermitente; Trastornos del control de impulsos