Reviews of Note

Intermittent explosive disorder; overlap in social and physical pain; schizophrenia: developmental aspects, lack of pleasure, and clozapine augmentation; treatment-related weight gain; meta-analyses of study quality: antipsychotics and psychotherapies; psychological effects of isotretinoin; cutting-edge research into depression

In an occasional column, Journal Watch Psychiatry editors briefly comment on review articles. These annotations were written by Drs. Barbara Geller, Peter Roy-Byrne, and Joel Yager.

Diagnostic validity of intermittent explosive disorder. Intermittent explosive disorder and associated syndromes of impulsive aggression, occurring in 5% to 7% of the U.S. population, have been the subject of increasing numbers of studies focusing on these disorders' phenomenology, taxonomy, comorbidity, epidemiology, clinical course, related family issues, neurobiology, and treatment. This author summarizes these findings,1 and although his specific research criteria differ in a few respects from those of DSM-IV, he concludes that diagnostic validity exists for …