Schizoid Personality Disorder - Diagnosis
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Monday, November 23, 2009

When less is more: how fewer diagnostic criteria can indicate greater severity.

30 Aug 2009 For diagnosing many mental disorders, the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) system weights each diagnostic criterion equally--each criterion counts the same toward meeting the diagnostic threshold. Research on the ... Read more...

Facial affect recognition deficit as a marker of genetic vulnerability to schizophrenia.

29 Apr 2009 The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility that affect recognition impairments are associated with genetic liability to schizophrenia. In a group of 55 unaffected relatives of schizophrenia patients (parents and siblings) we examined ... Read more...

"I am not complaining"--ambivalence construct in schizoid personality disorder.

30 Dec 2008 Patients with schizoid personality disorders (SPD) often challenge clinicians because of their seemingly detached and restricted affective behaviour, which may be interpreted as lack of motivation for treatment and lifestyle changes. However, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Schizoid Personality Disorder - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• When less is more: how fewer diagnostic criteria can indicate greater severity. 30 Aug 2009
• Facial affect recognition deficit as a marker of genetic vulnerability to schizophrenia. 29 Apr 2009
• "I am not complaining"--ambivalence construct in schizoid personality disorder. 30 Dec 2008
• [Personality disorder] 13 Mar 2008
• Assessing interpersonal aspects of schizoid personality disorder: preliminary validation studies. 28 Feb 2008
• Schizoid-like features and season of birth in a nonpatient sample. 6 Feb 2008
• Schizoidia in schizophrenia spectrum and personality disorders: role of dissociation. 12 Jun 2007
• Rates of avoidant, schizotypal, schizoid and paranoid personality disorders in psychometric high-risk groups at 5-year follow-up. 29 May 2007
• Head banging on an inpatient psychiatric unit: a vicious circle. 27 Feb 2007
• Cluster A personality disorders: considering the 'odd-eccentric' in psychiatric nursing. 30 Jan 2007
• [Elements of a clinical differential diagnosis between Asperger syndrome and the schizoid/paranoid personality] 30 Dec 2006
• [Indication of psychoanalytic treatment for personality disorders] 30 Dec 2006
• [The molecular-genetic aspects of differentiation of schizoaffective psychosis and attack-like progressive schizophrenia] 30 Dec 2006
• Dimensional representations of DSM-IV cluster A personality disorders in a population-based sample of Norwegian twins: a multivariate study. 6 Aug 2006
• Dual-task information processing in schizotypal personality disorder: evidence of impaired processing capacity. 29 Jun 2006
• Validity and reliability of the CAPE: a self-report instrument for the measurement of psychotic experiences in the general population. 29 Jun 2006
• Personality disorders and romantic adult attachment: a comparison of secure and insecure attached child molesters. 30 Mar 2006
• Patterns of adaptation to conflict and schizoid personality scale scores. 30 Jan 2006
• Behavioral signs of schizoidia and schizotypy in social anhedonics. 13 Oct 2005
• A precious case from Middle Earth. 16 Dec 2004

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Technical information about 'Schizoid Personality Disorder'

Definition: A personality disorder manifested by a profound defect in the ability to form social relationships, no desire for social involvement, and an indifference to praise or criticism.

Descriptor UI: D012557

Alternative terms: Schizoid Personality Disorder; Schizoid Personality; Personalities, Schizoid; Personality, Schizoid; Schizoid Personalities; Personality Disorder, Schizoid; Disorder, Schizoid Personality; Disorders, Schizoid Personality; Personality Disorders, Schizoid; Schizoid Personality Disorders;

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: F03.675.700;

Online Note: use SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER to search SCHIZOID PERSONALITY 1972-80 (as Prov 1972); use PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1969-71

History Note: 81; was SCHIZOID PERSONALITY 1972-80 (Prov 1972), was SCHIZOID PERSONALITY see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1969-72