Personality Disorders - Complications
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Self-harm presentations in movies]

28 Apr 2009 The aim of this article is to demonstrate how movies can enhance our understanding of the phenomenology of self-destructive behaviour. Various aspects of self-harm, including psychological individual characteristics and cultural trends, have been ... Read more...

[Self-harm and personality disorders]

28 Apr 2009 BACKGROUND: Clinical experience and recent research convey that patients with personality disorders who harm themselves with a suicidal intention should be treated differently than those who do so without a suicidal intention. The purpose of this ... Read more...

Personality traits related to juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: MRI reveals prefrontal abnormalities through a voxel-based morphometry study.

9 Apr 2009 Studies involving juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) patients have demonstrated an elevated prevalence of cluster B personality disorders (PD) characterized as emotional instability, immaturity, unsteadiness, lack of discipline, and rapid mood ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Personality Disorders - Complications'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Diagnosis and therapy of personality disorders] 2 May 2009
• [Self-harm presentations in movies] 28 Apr 2009
• [Self-harm and personality disorders] 28 Apr 2009
• Personality traits related to juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: MRI reveals prefrontal abnormalities through a voxel-based morphometry study. 9 Apr 2009
• [Should psychological events be considered cancer risk factors?] 31 Mar 2009
• Are personality traits of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy related to frontal lobe dysfunctions? A proton MRS study. 9 Mar 2009
• Negative will, self-image, and personality dysfunction. 30 Jan 2009
• [Personality disorders in eating disorder patients] 30 Jan 2009
• [Main types of depression with the prevalence of overvalued ideas within the pubertal decompensation of personality disorders] 30 Dec 2008
• [Influence of personality disorders and consumption patterns on the efficacy of a relapse-prevention program for the treatment of alcoholism] 30 Dec 2008
• Personality disorder factors predict recovery of employment functioning among treated cocaine abusers. 30 Dec 2008
• [Cocaine addiction and personality disorders: a study with the MCMI-II] 30 Dec 2008
• Role of psychiatric comorbidity in chronic Lyme disease. 13 Dec 2008
• Influence of personality disorder features on social functioning in substance-abusing women five years after compulsive residential treatment. Dec 2008
• Deliberate self-harm in female patients with affective disorders: investigation of personality structure and affect regulation by means of operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics. 29 Sep 2008
• Effects of personality disorder and other variables on professionals' evaluation of treatment features in individuals with mild intellectual disabilities and severe behavior problems. 28 Sep 2008
• Personality profile of patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. 14 Sep 2008
• Direct diagnosis and management of emotional factors in chronic headache patients. 31 Aug 2008
• Preliminary evidence of improvement of depressive symptoms but not impulsivity in cluster B personality disorder patients treated with quetiapine: an open label trial. 30 Aug 2008
• Common comorbidities seen in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. 30 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Personality Disorders'

Definition: A major deviation from normal patterns of behavior.

Descriptor UI: D010554

Alternative terms: Personality Disorders; Personality Disorder; Avoidant Personality Disorder; Avoidant Personality Disorders; Personality Disorder, Avoidant; Personality Disorders, Avoidant; Inadequate Personality; Personality, Inadequate; Narcissistic Personality Disorder; Personality Disorder, Narcissistic; As If Personality; Personality, As If; Impulse-Ridden Personality; Impulse Ridden Personality; Personality, Impulse-Ridden;

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;

Online Note: use PERSONALITY DISORDERS to search AS IF PERSONALITY 1975-78 & IMPULSE-RIDDEN PERSONALITY & INADEQUATE PERSONALITY 1968-78

History Note: 68; AS IF PERSONALITY was see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1975-78; IMPULSE-RIDDEN PERSONALITY & INADEQUATE PERSONALITY were see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1968-78