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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Antisocial personality disorder"”.
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Attitudes toward Antisocial Personality Disorder Among Clinicians
… this study was to explore the attitudes toward antisocial personality disorder among clinicians. The researcher created a 15 question survey to interview clinicians in hopes of eliciting information about their attitudes toward this population. The survey consisted of seven open ended questions …
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Can the Triarchic Model Differentiate between Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder?
<p>Although Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) represents the closest diagnostic equivalent to psychopathy in the DSM-IV, it has long been recognized as failing to capture the full range of the construct. The current study examined the degree to which boldness, a trait domain within the …
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Antisocial Personality Disorder Comorbidity in Methamphetamine Use Disorder: Sociodemographic, clinical and childhood trauma correlates
Personality pathology, especially antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), often occurs in patients with methamphetamine use disorder (MAUD). However, little is known about potential risk factors for this dual diagnosis, and the impact of this comorbidity on both the severity of MAUD and levels of …
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Antecedents of Borderline Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder: An Examination of Gene X Environment Interactions
… that genotypes associated with impulse-control disorders and negative emotionality, such as monoamine oxidase-a (MAOA), interact with negative early environmental factors like childhood maltreatment and develop into the disorders know as Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Antisocial …
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Evidence of Executive Dysfunction in Co-occurring Substance Use Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder or Antisocial Personality Disorder
… of individuals in treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs) have co-existing lifetime psychopathology. Executive function deficits are tied to markers of decreased quality of life including increases in negative life events (Green, Kern, Braff, & Mintz, 2000), maladaptive social functioning …
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Relationship between Crime, Psychological Diagnosis and Cognitive Functioning
… delay, diagnosis of an intellectual disorder, and Total RBANS score for the type of crime that a patient committed. Individuals without the Presence of Violence were more likely to have a history of developmental delay and have a diagnosis of an Intellectual/Cognitive Disorder than …
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Feminist identity and social tolerance of mental illness: The influence of gender-role deviance
… illnesses (i.e. men with depression, women with antisocial personality disorder) are socially tolerated. Male and female subjects (N=260) were given the Feminist Perspectives Scale and six character vignettes describing a person with a mental illness followed by a series of questions. Subjects …
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The effects of aggression, impulsivity, and psychopathic traits on treatment program completion in substance dependent individuals.
… serve as a marker for a dimension of psychiatric disorders associated with disinhibited behavior. Reduced P300 amplitude has been shown in individuals with alcohol and substance use disorders, externalizing childhood behavior problems, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and impulsive aggressive …
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Stigmatization of Psychological and Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Effects of Diagnostic Labeling in a Legal Context
… varied according to the diagnostic labels: <em>Antisocial Personality Disorder </em>(ASPD), <em>Schizophrenia</em>, <em>Autism Spectrum Disorder </em>(ASD), and <em>Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder </em>(ADHD). These labels were associated with more psychiatric facility recommendations …
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Development and validation of a new scale for the assessment of psychopathy
… suggested that procedures for assessing the disorder should take into account its two-facet structure, its chronicity, its association with criminality, and its association with deceitfulness. A review of the five most popular assessment procedures currently in use indicated that none of them …
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Pathology and Motivation in Players of Grand Theft Auto IV
… games leads individuals to behave in deviant and antisocial ways outside the confines of the gaming environment (Grossman & Christensen, 2008). Psychopathy is a primary feature of Antisocial Personality Disorder, according to the American Psychiatric Association (2013), and psychopathic criminals …
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Aggressive antisocial behavior- clinical, cognitive, and behavioral covariates of its persistence
Introduction Aggressive antisocial behavior is a major challenge to society, and studies on the determinants of its persistence are essential to the development of strategies to prevent violence. Aims & Methods The overall aim of the thesis was to establish covariates of persistent aggressive …
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Attachment, childhood adversity, emotional problems and personality disorder in offenders with mild intellectual disability
… as a developmental risk factor with regard to antisociality, in the mainstream population. However there is a dearth of evidence with regard to attachment and the development of antisociality in offenders with intellectual disability (ID). Differences in<br/> lifespan development and cognitive …
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Cluster analysis of disorders characterized by impulsivity in patients with methamphetamine use disorder
Background Individuals with methamphetamine use disorder (MUD) frequently present with psychiatric comorbidities with impulsive features. Little research has been conducted on comorbidity with impulsive features in MUD. Therefore, this cross-sectional study aimed to delineate comorbid disorders …
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Psychiatric disorders as an outcome of neurological insult : a computation of relative risk
… was to examine the relative risk of psychiatric disorders occurring in patients diagnosed with neurological disorders. This study separately computed the relative risk ratios for identified psychiatric disorder (i.e., anxiety, mood disorders, somatization, schizophrenia, alcohol abuse, and …
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A Twin Study of Antisocial Behavior and Depression: Methodology, Etiology, and Comorbidity
… between internalizing and externalizing disorders is poorly understood. This manuscript aims to investigate the roles of genes and then environment in the development of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) and the nature of their comorbidity in young …
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Effects of Oxytocin On Human Aggression
… is particularly prevalent in individuals with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and comorbid substance use disorder (SUD). Aggression in these individuals can manifest at maladaptive levels that place considerable burdens on public health and communities. Therefore, understanding the …
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AD/HD and autism spectrum disorders in adults
Background: Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are early-onset, but often life-time impairing, neurodevelopmental disorders. They are highly overlapping and seem to carry considerable risks of negative outcomes, psychiatrically and psychosocially. …
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Psychopathic Traits, Skin Conductance, and Emotion in the Normal Population
Research has suggested that psychopathic characteristics exist along a continuum extending into the normal population (Andershed, Gustafson, Kerr, & Stattin, 2002; Ross, Lutz, & Bailley, 2004; Williams, Paulhus, & Hare, 2007). Individuals high in subclinical psychopathy were expected to show the …
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Elaborating Borderline and Psychopathic Personality with the Computerized Adaptive Test of Personality Disorder in a Female Correctional Sample
<p>Most of what we know about Psychopathic Personality Disorder (PPD) is based upon research with males. Considerably less research has examined female manifestations of the construct, however, some research suggests that Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) may represent a female phenotypic …
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