Schizotypal Personality Disorder
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Associations between multiple dimensions of schizotypy and sociodemographic variables in a nonpsychiatric sample of young adults.

29 Sep 2009 In several prior studies, self-reported schizotypy has been documented to vary by gender, age, race/ethnicity, and measures of social engagement. In this study, undergraduate students participated in an online survey, and data from 825 students were ... Read more...

Positive schizotypy scores correlate with left visual field interference for negatively valenced emotional words: A lateralized emotional Stroop study.

7 Sep 2009 Fourteen men scoring high and 14 men scoring low on a positive schizotypy scale participated in a lateralized emotional Stroop task. Vocal reaction times for color naming of neutral, positive and negative emotional words were recorded. Across ... Read more...

Pseudoneurotic schizophrenia revisited.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVES: 'Pseudoneurotic schizophrenia' was a diagnostic term coined in the 1940s by Hoch and Polatin. It described a subgroup of patients who presented with prominent anxiety symptoms, which masked a latent psychotic disorder. Pseudoneurotic ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Schizotypal Personality Disorder'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Associations between multiple dimensions of schizotypy and sociodemographic variables in a nonpsychiatric sample of young adults. 29 Sep 2009
• Positive schizotypy scores correlate with left visual field interference for negatively valenced emotional words: A lateralized emotional Stroop study. 7 Sep 2009
• Pseudoneurotic schizophrenia revisited. 30 Aug 2009
• Sustained attention deficit along the psychosis proneness continuum: a study on the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART). 30 Aug 2009
• Ten-year stability and latent structure of the DSM-IV schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. 30 Jul 2009
• Anticipating DSM-V: should psychosis risk become a diagnostic class? 22 Jul 2009
• Who is at risk for a psychotic disorder? 22 Jul 2009
• [Predisposition to alcohol and drug consumption in schizophrenia-vulnerable people] 29 Jun 2009
• Cortisol levels in childhood and psychosis risk in late adolescence. 29 Jun 2009
• Schizotypy, depression, and anxiety in physical and social anhedonia. 29 Jun 2009
• SPEM dysfunction and general schizotypy as measured by the SSQ: a controlled study. 27 Jun 2009
• Unusual sleep experiences, dissociation, and schizotypy: Evidence for a common domain. 19 Jun 2009
• The role of leisure in the lives of psychotic patients: a qualitative study. 30 May 2009
• The psychosis continuum and categorical versus dimensional diagnostic approaches. 30 May 2009
• [Early detection and intervention in first episode psychosis] 26 May 2009
• Smaller superior temporal gyrus volume specificity in schizotypal personality disorder. 24 May 2009
• Performance on the Modified Card Sorting Test and its relation to psychopathology in adolescents and young adults with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. 10 May 2009
• [Patient with a history of immigration in inpatient psychiatric clinics--representative country-wide survey of the "Psychiatry and Immigration" Working Group of the Federal Directors Conference] 6 May 2009
• Widespread reductions of cortical thickness in schizophrenia and spectrum disorders and evidence of heritability. 29 Apr 2009
• Associations between past alcohol, cannabis, and cocaine use and current schizotypy among first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia and non-psychiatric controls. 23 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Schizotypal Personality Disorder'

Definition: A personality disorder in which there are oddities of thought (magical thinking, paranoid ideation, suspiciousness), perception (illusions, depersonalization), speech (digressive, vague, overelaborate), and behavior (inappropriate affect in social interactions, frequently social isolation) that are not severe enough to characterize schizophrenia.

Descriptor UI: D012569

Alternative terms: Schizotypal Personality Disorder; Personality Disorder, Schizotypal; Disorder, Schizotypal Personality; Disorders, Schizotypal Personality; Personality Disorders, Schizotypal; Schizotypal Personality Disorders; Schizophrenia, Borderline; Borderline Schizophrenia; Borderline Schizophrenias; Schizophrenias, Borderline; Schizophrenia, Pseudoneurotic; Pseudoneurotic Schizophrenia; Pseudoneurotic Schizophrenias; Schizophrenias, Pseudoneurotic; Pseudopsychopathic Schizophrenia; Pseudopsychopathic Schizophrenias; Schizophrenia, Pseudopsychopathic; Schizophrenias, Pseudopsychopathic; Incipient Schizophrenia; Incipient Schizophrenias; Schizophrenia, Incipient; Schizophrenias, Incipient; Schizophrenia, Latent; Latent Schizophrenia; Latent Schizophrenias; Schizophrenias, Latent;

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Tree Number: F03.675.725;

Online Note: use SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER to search SCHIZOPHRENIA, LATENT 1972-80 (as Prov 1972)

History Note: 81; was SCHIZOPHRENIA, LATENT 1972-80 (Prov 1972)