How is personality disorder linked to dangerousness? A putative role for early-onset alcohol abuse

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 702-708

  Howard, Rick ^a,b  

^a RAMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Division of Psychiatry   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FRONTAL LOBE; HYPOTHESIS; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33746268011     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.03.050     Document Type: Article

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