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    APT (2002), vol. 8, p. 10 Palmer Robert  L. Palmer Bob Palmer is the Clinical Director of the Leicestershire Eating Disorders Service and an honoray consultant psychiatrist and     senior lecturer at Leicester General Hospital (University Department of Psychiatry, Brandon Mental Health Unit, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester LE5 4PW,  UK). He is the author of Helping People with Eating Disorders and other books and papers on the topic of the clinical eating disorders. This is the final in a…

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JR Havens and SA Strathdee. Review published: 2005. CRD summary This review concluded that there were few differences in opioid treatment outcomes for those with or without co-morbid antisocial personality disorder. However, some treatment outcomes, such as cocaine use and criminal activity, did differ between groups. In view of the methodological limitations of the review, these conclusions should be interpreted with caution. Authors’ objectives To examine differences in opiate treatment outcomes among users with and without co-morbid antisocial personality disorder…

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  Pathways From Childhood Conduct Problems to Adult Criminality Tiffany L. PankoRochester Institute of Technology This paper focuses on childhood conduct disorder, attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity and antisocial personality and how they act as factors in predicting a child’s future criminal activity. An overview on the disorders is provided, looking into their characteristics, causality, and relationship to crime to provide a complete understanding of the diagnoses. The difference between young girls and boys and their criminal behavior…

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  A short, sharp look into the 10 personality disorders. [Article updated on 21 August 2015.] The study of human personality or ‘character’ (from the Greek charaktêr, the mark impressed upon a coin) dates back at least to antiquity. In his Characters, Tyrtamus (371-287 bc)—nicknamed Theophrastus or ‘divinely speaking’ by his contemporary Aristotle— divided the people of the Athens of the 4th century BC into thirty different personality types, including ‘arrogance’, ‘irony’, and ‘boastfulness’. The Characters exerted a strong influence on…

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  REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to Washington Headquarters Service, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports, 1215…

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  Netta Horesh, PhD,*† Israel Orbach, PhD,* Doron Gothelf, MD,† Meir Efrati, MA,* and Alan Apter, MD *Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel; †Fein- berg Child Study Center, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Petah-Tikva, Israel; and ‡Department of Psychiatry, Tel-Aviv Univer- sity, Ramat-Aviv, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Reprints: Netta Horesh, PhD, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan Univer- sity, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel. E-mail:  horeshn@mail.biu.ac.il Copyright © 2003 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 0022-3018/03/19109-0582 DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000087184.56009.61     Abstract: The objective of the…

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  By Antonia S. New, MD & Larry J. Siever MD   The diagnosis of borderline personality disorder undoubtedly includes a heterogeneous group of disorders. In fact the diagnosis itself was developed without field trials for validation, and it is therefore not surprising that the agreement using different diagnostic tools is actually quite low (52%) (Kavoussi et al, 1990). Because of the lack of clarity in the phenomenology of the diagnosis, neurobiologic research has been more productive when focusing on…

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