"Ego" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The conscious portion of the personality structure which serves to mediate between the demands of the primitive instinctual drives, (the id), of internalized parental and social prohibitions or the conscience, (the superego), and of reality.
| Descriptor ID |
D004532
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.752.747.189 F02.739.794.206
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ego" by people in Profiles.
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SOAP Opera: Self as Object and Agent in Prioritizing Attention. J Cogn Neurosci. 2017 Jun; 29(6):937-952.
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Time perspective and social preference in older and younger adults: Effects of self-regulatory fatigue. Psychol Aging. 2016 09; 31(6):594-604.
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Learning from losing: ethical, psychoanalytic, and spiritual perspectives on managing the incremental losses of the distributed self in dementia. J Psychiatr Pract. 2011 Jan; 17(1):41-8.
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Borderline personality disorder and DSM-5. J Psychiatr Pract. 2010 May; 16(3):143.
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An examination of the construct validity of the Rorschach Mutuality of Autonomy (MOA) Scale. J Pers Assess. 2009 May; 91(3):227-37.
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Operative simulcasts: patient's donations to surgeon's education. J Vasc Surg. 2008 Feb; 47(2):476-7.
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Trust, moral responsibility, the self, and well-ordered societies: the importance of basic philosophical concepts for clinical ethics. J Med Philos. 2002 Feb; 27(1):3-9.
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Ego-syntonic alien hand syndrome after right posterior cerebral artery stroke. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 1999 Feb; 80(2):162-5.