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Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Traits in Adult Women With Eating Disorders: Defining a Broader Eating Disorder Phenotype

Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Traits in Adult Women With Eating Disorders: Defining a Broader Eating Disorder Phenotype

Marija Brecelj Anderluh, M.D., Kate Tchanturia, Ph.D., Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Ph.D., and Janet Treasure, Ph.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.Psych. View Author and Article Information Published online: February 01, 2003  |  https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.160.2.242 Abstract OBJECTIVE: The authors retrospectively examined a spectrum of childhood traits that reflect obsessive-compulsive personality in adult women with eating disorders and assessed the predictive value of the traits for the development of eating disorders. METHOD: In a case-control design, 44 women with anorexia nervosa, 28 women with bulimia nervosa, and 28…

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Emotion recognition in borderline personality disorder: effects of emotional information on negative bias

Emotion recognition in borderline personality disorder: effects of emotional information on negative bias

Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul. 2015; 2: 10. Published online 2015 Jun 26. doi:  10.1186/s40479-015-0031-z PMCID: PMC4579484 Sabrina Fenske, Stefanie Lis, Lisa Liebke, Inga Niedtfeld, Peter Kirsch, and Daniela Mier Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Background Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is characterized by severe deficits in social interactions, which might be linked to deficits in emotion recognition. Research on emotion recognition abilities in…

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Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy in Cocaine-Dependent Women

Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy in Cocaine-Dependent Women

  Megan J. Rutherford, Ph.D., John S. Cacciola, Ph.D., and Arthur I. Alterman, Ph.D.   Objective: The goal of this study was to examine the lifetime prevalence of antisocial personality disorder according to five diagnostic systems and the prevalence of psychopathy in a study group of women. The relationship between antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy was also examined. Finally, differences in treatment admission variables based on the presence or absence of antisocial personality disorder and/or psychopathy were evaluated. Method: Antisocial…

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Obsessive-compulsive (Anankastic) Personality Disorder: A Poorly Researched Landscape with Significant Clinical Relevance

Obsessive-compulsive (Anankastic) Personality Disorder: A Poorly Researched Landscape with Significant Clinical Relevance

Indian J Psychol Med. 2016 Jan-Feb; 38(1): 1–5. doi:  10.4103/0253-7176.175085 PMCID: PMC4782437 M. S. Reddy, M. Starlin Vijay, and Swetha Reddy Author information ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. INTRODUCTION The constellation of features similar to the obsessive-compulsive (anankastic) personality disorder (OCPD) was first described by Pierre Janet in 1903 as the “psychasthenic state.” This was later endorsed by Freud in his 1908 work entitled, “Character and Anal Eroticism.”[1] In…

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Gender Differences in Anxiety Disorders: Prevalence, Course of Illness, Comorbidity and Burden of Illness

Gender Differences in Anxiety Disorders: Prevalence, Course of Illness, Comorbidity and Burden of Illness

J Psychiatr Res. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2012 Aug 1. Published in final edited form as: J Psychiatr Res. 2011 Aug; 45(8): 1027–1035. Published online 2011 Mar 25. doi:  10.1016/j.jpsychires.2011.03.006 PMCID: PMC3135672 NIHMSID: NIHMS281333 Carmen P. McLean, Anu Asnaani, Brett T. Litz, and Stefan G. Hofmann Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at J Psychiatr Res See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Abstract…

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Detection of comorbidity with Borderline Personality Disorder in patients with Bipolar Disorders

Detection of comorbidity with Borderline Personality Disorder in patients with Bipolar Disorders

Riconoscimento della comorbidità con il disturbo borderline di personalità nei pazienti affetti da disturbo bipolare Lai, S. Pirarba, F. Pinna, B. Carpiniello Department of Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Clinic, University of Cagliari, Italy     Summary Background Difficulties are frequently encountered in distinguishing between Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder, with dif- ferential diagnosis being complicated by the presence of comor- bidity. The present study aims to evaluate the utility of the Mil- lon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III…

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The Relationship Between Anxiety Disorders and Suicide Attempts: Findings from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions

The Relationship Between Anxiety Disorders and Suicide Attempts: Findings from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions

Depress Anxiety. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2011 Sep 1. Published in final edited form as: Depress Anxiety. 2010 Sep; 27(9): 791–798. doi:  10.1002/da.20674 PMCID: PMC2940247 NIHMSID: NIHMS221019 Josh Nepon, MD,1 Shay-Lee Belik, Msc,1,2 James Bolton, MD FRCPC,1 and Jitender Sareen, MD FRCPC1,2,3 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at Depress Anxiety See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Abstract Background Previous work has suggested…

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Relationship between Social Anxiety Disorder and Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Relationship between Social Anxiety Disorder and Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Clin Psychol Rev. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2011 Dec 1. Published in final edited form as: Clin Psychol Rev. 2010 Dec; 30(8): 1040–1048. Published online 2010 Aug 14. doi:  10.1016/j.cpr.2010.08.001 PMCID: PMC2952668 NIHMSID: NIHMS229696 Angela Fang and Stefan G. Hofmann Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at Clin Psychol Rev See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Abstract Social anxiety disorder (SAD) and body…

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Comorbidity of Personality Disorders in Anxiety Disorders: A Meta-Analysis of 30 Years of Research

Comorbidity of Personality Disorders in Anxiety Disorders: A Meta-Analysis of 30 Years of Research

     Oddgeir Friborg 1, 2 Monica Martinussen 3 Sabine Kaiser 1 Karl Tore Øvergård 1 Jan H. Rosenvinge 1   1 Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, Norway. 2 Psychiatric Research Centre of Northern Norway, University Hospital of Northern Norway, Tromsø. 3 Faculty of Health Sciences, Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, University of Tromsø, Norway.   Declaration of interest: None of the authors have any conflicting interests. Corresponding author…

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Obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders

Obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders

Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2003 Sep; 5(3): 259–271. PMCID: PMC3181632 Andrea Allen, PhD* Andrea Allen, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Audrey King, PhD Audrey King, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Eric Hollander, MD Eric Hollander, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Author information ► Copyright and License information ► Abstract The obsessive-compulsive spectrum is an important concept referring to a number…

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