Two Bankrobbers with "Antisocial" and "Schizoid/Avoidant" Personality Disorders, Comorbid with Partial Seizures: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Limbic Psychotic Trigger Reaction, Respectively

Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 191-197

  Pontius, Anneliese A ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antisocial and schizoid avoidant personality disorders; Atavistic regression; Childhood head injury; Criminality; Diagnostic overshadowing; Partial temporo limbic seizures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035591174     PISSN: 1056263X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016617526205     Document Type: Article

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