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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Definition of 'Antisocial Personality Disorder'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) Common names: Antisocial Personality Disorder; Personality Disorder, Antisocial; Antisocial Personality Disorders; Disorder, Antisocial Personality; Disorders, Antisocial Personality; Personality Disorders, Antisocial; Sociopathic Personality; Personalities, Sociopathic; Personality, Sociopathic |
Saturday, March 20, 2010
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...
Children's context inappropriate anger and salivary cortisol.
30 Aug 2009 Some children show emotion that is not consistent with normative appraisal of the context and can therefore be defined as context inappropriate (CI). The authors used individual growth curve modeling and hierarchical multiple regression analyses to ... Read more...
30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: The Training with Aggressive Children (Petermann & Petermann, 2008) was integrated into the setting of a child welfare service. This study examined, if mental health care of aggressive children in child welfare settings can be improved, ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Antisocial Personality Disorder'
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- Prevalence of psychopathology in childhood epilepsy: categorical and dimensional measures. 17 Nov 2009
- Children's context inappropriate anger and salivary cortisol. 30 Aug 2009
- [Behaviour therapy and child welfare - results of an approach to improve mental health care of aggressive children] 30 Aug 2009
- Evidence for a putative biomarker for substance dependence. 30 Aug 2009
- Localization of deformations within the amygdala in individuals with psychopathy. 30 Aug 2009
- Adolescent dispositions for antisocial behavior in context: the roles of neighborhood dangerousness and parental knowledge. 30 Jul 2009
- Attention moderates the processing of inhibitory information in primary psychopathy. 30 Jul 2009
- Iatrogenic effect of juvenile justice. 30 Jul 2009
- Emotion dysregulation in the intergenerational transmission of romantic relationship conflict. 30 Jul 2009
- Characteristics of psychopathy in adolescent nonsmokers and smokers: Relations to delay discounting and self reported impulsivity. 30 Jul 2009
- Genetic risk for conduct disorder symptom subtypes in an ADHD sample: specificity to aggressive symptoms. 29 Jun 2009
- The role of harsh discipline in explaining sex differences in conduct disorder: a study of opposite-sex twin pairs. 29 Jun 2009
- Patterns and profiles of response to incivility in the workplace. 29 Jun 2009
- Aggressive versus nonaggressive antisocial behavior: distinctive etiological moderation by age. 29 Jun 2009
- Aggressive behavior between siblings and the development of externalizing problems: evidence from a genetically sensitive study. 29 Jun 2009
- School performance and genetic and environmental variance in antisocial behavior at the transition from adolescence to adulthood. 29 Jun 2009
- The protective effects of neighborhood collective efficacy on British children growing up in deprivation: a developmental analysis. 29 Jun 2009
- Cortisol, callous-unemotional traits, and pathways to antisocial behavior. 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
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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