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Personality Disorders - Metabolism
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Definition of 'Personality Disorders'A major deviation from normal patterns of behavior. Common names: 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 |
Sunday, November 22, 2009
9 Mar 2009 
PURPOSE: Personality traits characterized by emotional instability and immaturity, unsteadiness, lack of discipline, hedonism, frequent and rapid mood changes, and indifference toward one's disease have been associated with patients who have ... Read more...
9 Apr 2008 Recent advances in functional brain imaging offer unique opportunities to explore the neurofunctional basis of tools used to assess personality differences which have proven their clinical usefulness. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging ... Read more...
The effectiveness of anticonvulsants in psychiatric disorders.
30 Dec 2007 Anticonvulsant drugs are widely used in psychiatric indications. These include mainly alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal syndromes, panic and anxiety disorders, dementia, schizophrenia, affective disorders, bipolar affective disorders in ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Personality Disorders - Metabolism'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Are personality traits of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy related to frontal lobe dysfunctions? A proton MRS study. 9 Mar 2009
- Decreased differential activity in the amygdala in response to fearful expressions in Type D personality. 9 Apr 2008
- The effectiveness of anticonvulsants in psychiatric disorders. 30 Dec 2007
- Neural mechanisms of aggression. 29 Jun 2007
- Associations between Cloninger's temperament dimensions and acute tobacco withdrawal.
7 Jun 2007 - [Impact of personality on the alcohol withdrawal syndrome intensity: a preliminary study with the Cloninger's model] 29 Apr 2007
- Individual-context interaction as a guide in the treatment of personality disorders. 30 Dec 2006
- Low levels of alpha7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor mRNA on peripheral blood lymphocytes in schizophrenia and its association with illness severity. 21 Feb 2006
- Type D personality: the heart, stress, and cortisol. 6 Apr 2005
- Anger and depression in cocaine addiction: association with the orbitofrontal cortex. 28 Jan 2005
- Essential fatty acids and their role in the treatment of impulsivity disorders. 29 Sep 2004
- Can stress cause depression? 30 Jul 2004
- Type D personality, cortisol and cardiac disease.
30 Jul 2004 - Patients with carcinoid syndrome exhibit symptoms of aggressive impulse dysregulation. 29 Apr 2004
- Platelet serotonin content correlates inversely with life history of aggression in personality-disordered subjects. 13 Apr 2004
- Norepinephrine function in personality disorder: plasma free MHPG correlates inversely with life history of aggression. 29 Sep 2003
- Neurobiologic function and temperament in subjects with personality disorders. 29 Sep 2003
- Aggression--from basic science to real life. 30 Aug 2003
- Aggression: the testosterone-serotonin link. 30 Aug 2003
- Impulsivity and prefrontal hypometabolism in borderline personality disorder. 28 Jul 2003
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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