Personality Disorders

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Heritability of avoidant and dependent personality disorder traits

(Medical Xpress)—A new twin study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health shows that the heritability of avoidant and dependent personality disorder traits might be higher than previously repo...

Family History Of Personality Disorders And Heritability Of Avoidant And Dependent Traits

A new twin study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health shows that the heritability of avoidant and dependent personality disorder traits might be higher than previously reported. Avoidant and...

Schizotypal personality disorder

Schizotypal personality disorder — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes and treatment of this socially isolating disorder.

Antisocial personality disorder

Antisocial personality disorder — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatment of this mental health disorder.

Bipolar disorder ‘frequent’ in depressive borderline personality disorder

Study results indicate that bipolar disorder may occur in up to half of individuals with co-existing borderline personality disorder and depression.

Bullying linked with borderline personality disorder in children

UK study results suggest that children who are bullied by their peers in primary school have an increased risk for developing borderline personality disorder during childhood.

Hallmarks of psychiatric illness can reveal themselves remotely

Researchers discovered that healthy people and those with borderline personality disorder displayed different patterns of behavior while playing an online strategy game, so much so that when healthy p...

Subtle hallmarks of psychiatric illness can reveal themselves even remotely

Researchers discovered that healthy people and those with borderline personality disorder displayed different patterns of behavior while playing an online strategy game, so much so that when healthy p...

Co-occurrence of avoidant personality disorder and child sexual abuse predicts poor outcome in long-standing eating disorder.

Few consistent predictive factors for eating disorder have been identified across studies. In the current 5-year prospective study, the objective was to examine whether (a) personality disorder and ch...

Negative life experiences and the development of cluster C personality disorders: a cognitive perspective.

Early negative experiences have long been thought to play an important role in the development of personality disorders. Most of the literature regarding these early life experiences has focused on bo...

Dependent personality disorder and physical abuse.

The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that the likelihood of physical spousal abuse is increased in dependent personality disorder (DPD) compared to other personality disorders. The sample...

The Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire predicts functioning styles of personality disorder: a trial in healthy subjects and personality-disorder patients.

Normal personality traits, as measured by the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ), predicted some personality disorders in a sample of healthy volunteers. Whether these predictions coul...

Narcissistic personality disorder and the dsm-v.

We address 3 issues relevant to narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and the DSM-V. First, we argue that excluding NPD while retaining other traditional personality disorder constructs (e.g., avoid...