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Study supports alternative model for personality disorders in upcoming DSM-5
May 10, 2013 18:17
A new “alternative model” included in the upcoming Fifth Edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s...
Kids with brains that under-react to painful images
May 2, 2013 17:48
When children with conduct problems see images of others in pain, key parts of their brains don’t react in the way...
Psychopaths are not neurally equipped to have concern for others
Apr 26, 2013 21:01
Prisoners who are psychopaths lack the basic neurophysiological “hardwiring” that enables them to care for others,...
New insights into the ‘borderline personality’ brain
Jan 18, 2013 20:08
New work by University of Toronto Scarborough researchers gives the best description yet of the neural circuits that underlie...
Borderline personality disorder: The ‘perfect storm’ of emotion dysregulation
Jan 15, 2013 19:19
Originally, the label “borderline personality disorder” was applied to patients who were thought to represent...
Borderline personality, bipolar disorders have similar unemployment rates
Dec 11, 2012 18:49
Unemployment poses a significant burden on the public no matter what the cause. But for those who have been diagnosed with...
Emotional disconnection disorder threatens marriages
Nov 16, 2012 19:02
Communication can be challenging for any married couple, but a personality trait called alexithymia that keeps people from...
Effective treatment helps Danes with personality disorders
Oct 23, 2012 17:19
For seven years, Carsten René Jørgensen from the Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences at Aarhus University...
Heritability of avoidant and dependent personality disorder traits
Sep 24, 2012 18:17
A new twin study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health shows that the heritability of avoidant and dependent personality...
‘Psychopaths’ have an impaired sense of smell
Sep 20, 2012 17:40
People with psychopathic tendencies have an impaired sense of smell, which points to inefficient processing in the front...
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