Affective reactivity in heroin-dependent patients with antisocial personality disorder

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 187, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 210-213

  Walter, Marc ^a   Degen, Bigna ^a   Treugut, Constanze ^a   Albrich, Jürgen ^a   Oppel, Monika ^a   Schulz, André ^b   Schächinger, Hartmut ^a,b   Dürsteler MacFarland, Kenneth M ^a,c   Wiesbeck, Gerhard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Addiction; Antisocial personality disorder; Heroin; Opioid maintenance treatment; Startle reflex

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE; METHADONE; OPIATE;

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; SENSORY STIMULATION; STARTLE REFLEX; UNPLEASANT SENSATION;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STARTLE REACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953075406     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.10.017     Document Type: Article

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