The Associated Press reports, on May 5, 2006:
Study: explosive disorder affects as many as 16 million Americans
To you, that angry, horn-blasting tailgater is suffering from road rage. But doctors have another name for it — intermittent explosive disorder — and a new study suggests it is far more common than they realized, affecting up to 16 million Americans….
Jennifer Hartstein, a psychologist at Montefiore Medical Center in New York… said the study is important because many people are not aware of the disorder.
Investigator Lucille Zimmerman responds:
I disagree; they’ve just been referring to it by the commonly accepted layperson’s term: “being an asshole.”