An approach to the psychobiology of personality disorders

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1093-1106

  Posner, Michael I ^a,b   Rothbart, Mary K ^a,b   Vizueta, Nathalie ^a   Thomas, Kathleen M ^a   Levy, Kenneth N ^c,d   Fossella, John ^a   Silbersweig, David ^d   Stern, Emily ^d   Clarkin, John ^d   Kernberg, Otto ^d  

^a Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORDERLINE STATE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; REVIEW; TEMPERAMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFLICT; FEMALE; GENETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 4 RECEPTOR; DRD4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D4;

EID: 1542564669     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: 14692198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579403000506     Document Type: Review

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