Antisocial personality disorder: A current review

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Glenn, Andrea L ^a   Johnson, Alexandria K ^a   Raine, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Child abuse; Crime; DSM 5; Genetics; Personality disorder; Psychopathy; Substance use; subtypes; Treatment

Indexed keywords

SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ANXIETY DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CARE AND CARING; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD NEGLECT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG ABUSE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MOOD DISORDER; NARCISSISM; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PHYSICAL VIOLENCE; PSYCHOPATHY; REVIEW; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; SNAP25 GENE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SUBSTANCE USE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TELEVISION VIEWING; UNEMPLOYMENT; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84887551734     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-013-0427-7     Document Type: Review

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