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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Schizotypal personality"”.
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Neurophysiological evaluation of sensory gating and selective attention in schizotypal personality
… debate centres around the question of whether schizotypal personality is part of a spectrum of schizophrenia-related disorders. Investigations of biological markers for schizophrenia in schizotypal subjects have tried to test this relationship. Given that there is considerable evidence for both …
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Diffusion Tensor Anisotropy in the Cingulum in Borderline and Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) are both characterized by inflexible and pervasive behavioral patterns that frequently lead to significant functional impairment. Although considerable research has been conducted on the biological and phenotypic …
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Associations Between Neuromotor and Neurocognitive Functioning in Adults with Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Individuals diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) exhibit patterns of cognitive deficits in (1) attention (Lees-Roitman, Cornblatt, Bergman, Obuchowski, Mitropoulou, Keefe, Silverman, & Siever, 1997), (2) memory (Bergman, Harvey, Lees-Roitman, Mohs, Margerm, Silverman, & Siever, …
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Relationship among schizoid and schizotypal personality traits and social support on PTSD symptom severity
… moderators of social support (e.g. specific personality characteristics) is sparse. The goal of this study was to examine if two personality variables, schizoid and schizotypal personality traits, moderate the relationship between social support and PTSD. It was hypothesized that individuals …
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Self-report Measures of Psychopathic and Schizotypal Personality Characteristics: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Characteristics of Antisocial Behavior and Hypothetical Psychosis-Proneness in a College Sample
… 2003; Widiger & Lynam, 1998;). Similarly, schizotypal characteristics appear to represent several distinct factors. Confirmatory Factor Analysis by Raine & Benishay (1995) determined that the nine subscales of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire fit best with a three-factor model of …
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Self-report Measures of Psychopathic and Schizotypal Personality Characteristics: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Characteristics of Antisocial Behavior and Hypothetical Psychosis-Proneness in a College Sample
… 2003; Widiger & Lynam, 1998;). Similarly, schizotypal characteristics appear to represent several distinct factors. Confirmatory Factor Analysis by Raine & Benishay (1995) determined that the nine subscales of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire fit best with a three-factor model of …
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The Neural Correlates of Allocentric Spatial Memory in Schizotypy
… volunteers with average and high levels of schizotypal traits assessed using the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire. Functional and structural MRI was used to investigate the neural correlates of allocentric spatial memory in schizotypal personality. Allocentric spatial memory is reported …
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Vulnerability to Online Political Misinformation: The Role of Non-clinical Schizotypal Traits
… theories, the current project sought to explore schizotypal personality traits as potential predictors of belief and engagement toward online political misinformation. The project also sought to investigate the potential significance of specific cognitive biases associated with schizotypal …
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Schizotypy and the role of coping behaviors in the experience of positive and negative affect
… measures including The Brief Cope, The Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire, and The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule. Bivariate correlations resulted in levels of schizotypy to be positively associated to negative affect and negatively associated to positive affect, replicating …
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Neural Indicator of Altered Mismatch Detection Predicts Atypical Cognitive-Perceptual Experiences in Psychotic Psychopathology
… SCZ, which predicted greater psychopathology and schizotypal personality traits. Diminished mid-latency mismatch detection (P2 factor) was evident in SCZ, BP, and SREL and was associated with greater positive symptoms of psychosis as well as self-reported atypical cognitive-perceptual experiences. …
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Disturbances of multisensory processing in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a behavioural and neurophysiological account
… which two stimuli are integrated (i.e. TWI), and schizotypal personality traits; namely, higher schizotypal traits are associated with wider TWIs. In Chapter Four, we provided evidence of a selective relationship between the TWI for visuo-tactile stimuli and the individual beta frequency (IBF), …
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Childhood recollections as predictors of specific features of borderline personality disorder
… are relevant to the etiology of borderline personality disorder (BPD). The present sought to tease apart the relative strength of relationship between these childhood factors and specific features of BPD in adults. Four hypotheses were tested. The first two are: childhood neglect is the best …
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Schizotypy: A Multi-Country Study of Psychometrics, Socio-Cultural Influences, Cognitive Processes, and Electrophysiological Markers
Schizotypy represents a latent personality organisation reflecting a putative liability for schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Schizotypic traits include anomalies in cognition (e.g., hallucinations), socio-emotional function (e.g., constricted affect), and behaviour (e.g., odd behaviour and …
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The Effect Of Traumatic Stressful Events On Schizotypal Symptoms In Community-Based Us Adolescents
… association between early life factors and schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) which represents as schizotypal symptoms in the adolescent population. To explore this relationship, this dissertation first starts with a systematic review of early life factors related to schizotypal …
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Monoamine Oxidase and Sensory Gating: Psychophysiological Vulnerabilities among Teenage Smokers
… Toward this end, event-related potential (ERP), personality, and behavioral data were collected in teenage female smokers and non-smokers. These data were analyzed to examine possible psychophysiological vulnerabilities in female teenage smokers such as deficits in brain and cognitive function, …
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Unraveling the trait overlap: Cortical and behavioral profiles differentiate subclinical autism and schizotypy
… such as the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) and Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire Brief-Revised (SPQ-BR), respectively. Importantly, non-clinical samples are unmedicated and free from disease progression effects, and high scorers exhibit behavioral and sensory profiles resembling their …
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P50 Sensory Gating: Impact of High Vs Low Schizotypy Personality and Smoking Status
… (right greater than left) in individuals with schizotypal personality. The purpose of this study was to test the following hypotheses: 1) Individuals with schizotypal personalities have poorer sensory gating than those without them. 2) Among individuals with schizotypy (high schizotypy), those …
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The effect of quality of life and health behaviors in schizotypy
Individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia are typically found to engage in higher rates of poorer health behaviors, such as higher rates of smoking and poorer nutrition. Along with poorer health behaviors, individuals with schizophrenia tend to report a lower quality of life than an individual …
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Locus of control and quality of life in individuals with schizotypy
The present study collected data from 200 undergraduate students (106 male, 94 female) and sought to examine the relationship between levels of stress, cognitive processes related to stress management (Locus of Control- LOC; Sense of Coherence; SOC), and quality of life (QOL) across varying levels …
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