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  Schizoid personality disorder manifests itself as a chronic lack of emotion, lack of interest in relationships with others and a lack of motivation or ambition. People who suffer from Schizoid personality disorder sometimes describe an inability to manufacture the kind of feelings they observe occurring naturally in others. Despite the name similarity, Schizoid Personality Disorder is different from Schizophrenia and Schizotypal Personality Disorder. However, it does have an certain degree of comorbidity (or co-occurrence) with these disorders and with…

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  ADVANCES IN NEUROPSYCHIATRY Neuropsychiatry of frontal lobe dysfunction in violent and criminal behaviour: a critical review Free M C Browera, B H Priceb Author affiliations Secure Care Program, Department of Psychiatry, Taunton State Hospital, Taunton, MA, USA, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Departments of Neurology, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Dr B H Price, Department of Neurology, Mclean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478, USA…

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Cluster B personality disorders are characterized by personality styles that are impulsive, dramatic, highly emotional, and erratic. Learning Objective Summarize the similarities and differences in diagnostic criteria, etiology, and treatment options among the Cluster B personality disorders Key Points Cluster B disorders include antisocial, histrionic, narcissistic, and borderline personality disorders. People with these disorders usually are impulsive, overly dramatic, highly emotional, and erratic. A person with antisocial personality disorder continuously violates the rights of others; often lies, fights, and has…

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by Matthew Dahlitz | Jun 1, 2016 | Magazine, Neuroscience The Psychotherapist’s Essential Guide to the Brain – Part 5 Fear & Anxiety Members Download Full Article TNPTVolume4Issue6pp10-15 Last month’s “Guide to the Brain” examined the neural substrates of OCD. Over the next two months we introduce some of the neuroscience behind other anxiety disorders such as phobias, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and generalised anxiety disorder (GAD). These anxiety disorders can become debilitating, and as clinicians we encounter…

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By Donald Black, MD ~ 1 min read He is the bad boy in high school — stealing stuff from other kids and lying about it, picking fights, getting poor grades. But he doesn’t seem to care. Grown up, he’s a con artist — can’t hold a decent job, thinks life isn’t fair, and he’s still stealing and getting away with it most of the time. Someone with antisocial personality disorder (ASP) has a reckless disregard for others and often…

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This is a good day, Samantha tells me: 10 on a scale of 10. We’re sitting in a conference room at the San Marcos Treatment Center, just south of Austin, Texas, a space that has witnessed countless difficult conversations between troubled children, their worried parents, and clinical therapists. But today promises unalloyed joy. Samantha’s mother is visiting from Idaho, as she does every six weeks, which means lunch off campus and an excursion to Target. The girl needs supplies: new…

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