Journal of Psychiatry

Department of Psychiatry, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria

Biography

Dr. Erefagha Leonardo Allagoa is currently working as a Doctor in the Department of Psychiatry at Jos University Teaching Hospital. Erefagha Leonardo Allagoa area of research interest includes Neuropsychology, Clinical Psychology.


 

Publications

• Research   
  Compulsive Sexual Behaviors in a Young Male with Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
  Author(s): Kingsley Mayowa Okonoda and Erefagha Leonardo Allagoa*
  
  Compulsive sexual behaviours are relatively rare and are not known to be associated with social phobias, with an intense scientific debate on going if it constitutes a behavioral addiction. Compulsive sexual behaviours otherwise known as Hypersexuality/problematic sexual behaviour and is identified by a persistent pattern of failure to control repetitive, intense urges, fantasies and behaviours of a sexual nature over an extended period of time that causes marked impairment in multiple areas of functioning, in this case, especially educational functioning. Phobic anxiety disorders also known as social phobias are a group of conditions in which anxiety is triggered typically in well- defined situations that are not currently dangerous with resulting avoidance of such situations. Nevertheless, CSB is not captured in DSM V and ICD10, although, diagnostic criteria were proposed during DSM.. View more»
  

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