Antisocial Personality Disorder - Research News and Information

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Mythos and mental illness: psychopathy, fantasy, and contemporary moral life.

29 Nov 2008 Medical accounts of the absence of conscience are intriguing for the way they seem disposed to drift away from the ideal of scientific objectivity and towards fictional representations of the subject. I examine here several contemporary accounts of ... Read more...

Ordered subsets linkage analysis of antisocial behavior in substance use disorder among participants in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism.

3 Oct 2008 Heterogeneity in complex diseases such as Substance Use Disorder (SUD) reduces the power to detect linkage and makes replication of findings in other populations unlikely. It is therefore critical to refine the phenotype and use methods that ... Read more...

Differential correlates of reactive and proactive aggression in Asian adolescents: relations to narcissism, anxiety, schizotypal traits, and peer relations.

30 Aug 2008 This study investigated relationship between reactive and proactive aggression, and narcissism, anxiety, schizotypal traits, and interpersonal relations in a sample of 698 Asian adolescents from Grades 7 to 9. Proactive aggression was found to be ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Antisocial Personality Disorder'

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• Mythos and mental illness: psychopathy, fantasy, and contemporary moral life. 29 Nov 2008
• Ordered subsets linkage analysis of antisocial behavior in substance use disorder among participants in the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism. 3 Oct 2008
• Psychology. Investigating the psychopathic mind. 3 Sep 2008
• Differential correlates of reactive and proactive aggression in Asian adolescents: relations to narcissism, anxiety, schizotypal traits, and peer relations. 30 Aug 2008
• The neurobiology of psychopathy. 30 Aug 2008
• Child development and personality disorder. 30 Aug 2008
• Assessment and emergency management of suicidality in personality disorders. 30 Aug 2008
• Facial emotion recognition in intellectual disabilities. 30 Aug 2008
• Forensic issues in intellectual disability. 30 Aug 2008
• Taxometric analysis of the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy scale. 30 Aug 2008
• Psychopathic personality traits associated with abnormal selective attention and impaired cognitive control. 30 Aug 2008
• Quantitative genetic studies of antisocial behaviour. 10 Aug 2008
• The amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: functional contributions and dysfunction in psychopathy. 10 Aug 2008
• Aggression in young children with concurrent callous-unemotional traits: can the neurosciences inform progress and innovation in treatment approaches? 10 Aug 2008
• Can music preference indicate mental health status in young people? 30 Jul 2008
• DRD2 and ANKK1 genotype in alcohol-dependent patients with psychopathic traits: association and interaction study. 30 Jul 2008
• Refining the borderline personality disorder phenotype through finite mixture modeling: implications for classification. 30 Jul 2008
• Externalizing pathology and the five-factor model: a meta-analysis of personality traits associated with antisocial personality disorder, substance use disorder, and their co-occurrence. 30 Jul 2008
• Structure of personality pathology in normal and clinical samples: Spanish validation of the DAPP-BQ. 30 Jul 2008
• The relationship of impairment to personality disorder severity among individuals with specific axis I disorders: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. 30 Jul 2008

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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