Personality Disorders - Pathology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

The Yale-Brown-Cornell eating disorder scale in women with anorexia nervosa: what is it measuring?

30 Mar 2009 OBJECTIVE: The Yale-Brown-Cornell Eating Disorder Scale (YBC-EDS) assesses eating disorder preoccupations, rituals, and symptom severity. This study examines the YBC-EDS in relation to eating disorder psychopathology, obsessionality, and impulsivity ... Read more...

Neuroticism and psychopathy predict brain activation during moral and nonmoral emotion regulation.

27 Feb 2009 Functional neuroimaging has identified brain regions associated with voluntary regulation of emotion, including the prefrontal cortex and amygdala. The neural mechanisms underlying individual differences in emotion regulation have not been ... Read more...

How do personality disorders modify suicide risk?

30 May 2008 There is a lack of psychological autopsy studies assessing the influence of axis II disorders on other risk factors for suicide. Therefore, we investigated if the estimated suicide risk for axis I disorders and socio-demographic factors was modified ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Personality Disorders - Pathology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The Yale-Brown-Cornell eating disorder scale in women with anorexia nervosa: what is it measuring? 30 Mar 2009
• Neuroticism and psychopathy predict brain activation during moral and nonmoral emotion regulation. 27 Feb 2009
• The neural correlates of moral decision-making in psychopathy. 30 Dec 2008
• How do personality disorders modify suicide risk? 30 May 2008
• Clinical course of neuropathologically confirmed frontal-variant Alzheimer's disease. 17 Feb 2008
• Small orbitofrontal traumatic lesions detected by high resolution MRI in a patient with major behavioural changes. 30 Dec 2007
• Neuropathologic heterogeneity in HDDD1: a familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions and progranulin mutation. 30 Dec 2006
• Morphological basis for the spectrum of clinical deficits in spinocerebellar ataxia 17 (SCA17). 5 Jun 2006
• The natural history of late-stage "pure" semantic dementia. 30 Jan 2006
• A novel mutation (G114V) in the prion protein gene in a family with inherited prion disease. 24 Apr 2005
• [Executive system and frontal lobe lesions in childhood] 29 Jun 2004
• Hippocampal structural asymmetry in unsuccessful psychopaths. 13 Jan 2004
• The accuracy of clinical criteria for the diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. 30 Dec 2003
• Longitudinal outcome in patients with bipolar disorder assessed by life-charting is influenced by DSM-IV personality disorder symptoms. 30 Jan 2003
• Decrease in genu of the corpus callosum in medication-naïve, early-onset dysthymia and depressive personality disorder. 13 Dec 2002
• [Personality disorders and brain imaging] 30 Dec 2001
• Progressive dementia with character change in an 84-year-old man. 29 Nov 2001
• Experiencing personality disorder: a participative research. 30 Dec 2000
• Organic personality disorder after traumatic brain injury: cognitive, anatomic and psychosocial factors. A 6 month follow-up. 29 Apr 2000
• [Health and political leadership. When somatic or mental diseases hit the statesmen and politicians] 8 Apr 2000

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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