Antisocial Personality Disorder - Epidemiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Prevalence of psychopathology in childhood epilepsy: categorical and dimensional measures.

17 Nov 2009 Few studies have utilized both categorical and dimensional measures of psychopathology in children with epilepsy. We evaluated 173 children (88 males, 85 females; mean age 11.7y [SD 1.8]; range 9-14y) who had epilepsy (generalized 36%, partial 61%) ... Read more...

Iatrogenic effect of juvenile justice.

30 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: The present study uses data from a community sample of 779 low-SES boys to investigate whether intervention by the juvenile justice system is determined, at least in part, by particular individual, familial and social conditions, and ... Read more...

The role of harsh discipline in explaining sex differences in conduct disorder: a study of opposite-sex twin pairs.

29 Jun 2009 In the current study, two hypotheses about the role of harsh discipline (HD) in explaining the sex difference in the prevalence of conduct disorder (CD) were evaluated: that boys exhibit more CD than girls because (1) they are exposed to more HD ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Antisocial Personality Disorder - Epidemiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Prevalence of psychopathology in childhood epilepsy: categorical and dimensional measures. 17 Nov 2009
• Iatrogenic effect of juvenile justice. 30 Jul 2009
• The role of harsh discipline in explaining sex differences in conduct disorder: a study of opposite-sex twin pairs. 29 Jun 2009
• Childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders as predictors of young adult disorders. 29 Jun 2009
• Three-year follow-up of syndromal antisocial behavior in adults: results from the wave 2 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. 14 Jun 2009
• Mediators of change for multisystemic therapy with juvenile sexual offenders. 30 May 2009
• Differences between homicide and filicide offenders; results of a nationwide register-based case-control study. 27 May 2009
• Recidivistic offending and mortality in alcoholic violent offenders: a prospective follow-up study. 18 May 2009
• Low non-oxidative glucose metabolism and violent offending: an 8-year prospective follow-up study. 13 May 2009
• Psychopathic traits and offender characteristics - a nationwide consecutive sample of homicidal male adolescents. 4 May 2009
• Severe sexual sadism--an underdiagnosed disorder? Evidence from a sample of forensic inpatients. 29 Apr 2009
• Externalizing psychopathology and risk for suicide attempt: cross-sectional and longitudinal findings from the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study. 29 Apr 2009
• Heterogeneity in antisocial trajectories in youth of adult sexual aggressors of women: an examination of initiation, persistence, escalation, and aggravation. 5 Apr 2009
• Psychopathy among prisoners in England and Wales. Apr 2009
• Therapeutic responses of psychopathic sexual offenders: treatment attrition, therapeutic change, and long-term recidivism. 30 Mar 2009
• Gender-sensitive mental health care. 30 Mar 2009
• Population density and youth antisocial behavior. 29 Mar 2009
• [Psychiatric disorders and childhood trauma in prisoners with antisocial personality disorder] 10 Mar 2009
• Relationships between social anxiety, depressive symptoms, and antisocial behaviors: evidence from a prospective study of adolescent boys. Mar 2009
• Forensic psychiatric perspective on criminality associated with intellectual disability: a nationwide register-based study. 27 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Antisocial Personality Disorder'

Definition: A personality disorder whose essential feature is a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. The individual must be at least age 18 and must have a history of some symptoms of CONDUCT DISORDER before age 15. (From DSM-IV, 1994)

Descriptor UI: D000987

Alternative terms: Antisocial Personality Disorder; Personality Disorder, Antisocial; Antisocial Personality Disorders; Disorder, Antisocial Personality; Disorders, Antisocial Personality; Personality Disorders, Antisocial; Sociopathic Personality; Personalities, Sociopathic; Personality, Sociopathic; Sociopathic Personalities; Psychopathic Personality; Personalities, Psychopathic; Personality, Psychopathic; Psychopathic Personalities; Antisocial Personality; Antisocial Personalities; Personalities, Antisocial; Personality, Antisocial; Dyssocial Behavior; Behavior, Dyssocial; Behaviors, Dyssocial; Dyssocial Behaviors;

Related Mesh Headings: Conduct Disorder;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.675.050;

Online Note: use ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER to search ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY 1976-80 & SOCIOPATHIC PERSONALITY 1966-75

History Note: 81; was ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY 1976-80, was ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY see under SOCIOPATHIC PERSONALITY 1969-75; SOCIOPATHIC PERSONALITY was heading 1963-75