Antisocial Personality Disorder
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W013
Diagnosis: Antisocial Personality Disorder
US Patients: 2%
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: M4, W; B2,G
Age Onset: Age 6-14, but usually improves by 40
Brain Area: genetic, extra testosterone, PFC
Symptoms: impulsivity, recklessness, crime, legal problems
Progression: ADHD, less serotonin, manipulative, homocidal, hurt family and friends
Causes: head trauma, extra gray (vs. white matter), family activities
Medications: antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers
Therapies:
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- Why Do They Do It? The Psychology Behind Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescentsby Marianna Mazza on March 24, 2025
Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) is a complex and often debilitating condition that can emerge from early behavioral disturbances in childhood and adolescence. This narrative review provides a comprehensive overview of the current understanding of ASPD in pediatric and adolescent populations, examining key diagnostic challenges, developmental trajectories, and emerging treatment approaches. Recent research underscores the critical role of the early identification of conduct disorder (CD)...
- Superior Temporal Gyrus activation modulates revenge-like aggressive response tendencies in antisocial men after provocation: evidence from an fMRI study using a modified Taylor aggression paradigmby K Weidacker on March 23, 2025
Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is characterised by a disregard of others' feelings, social norms, rules and obligations as well as increased reactive and proactive aggression among others. Experimental investigations of neural correlates of provocation and associated aggression often use competitive reaction time tasks played against a fictional opponent, such as the Taylor Aggression Paradigm (TAP). However, previous TAP neuroimaging research mainly focused on aggression levels in...
- Psychopathic personality traits are associated with experimentally induced approach and appraisal of fear-evoking stimuli indicating fear enjoymentby Sabrina Schneider on March 14, 2025
The extent to which deficits in the perception and experience of fear contribute to psychopathic symptoms is an ongoing matter of debate. Traditional theories emphasize diminished threat processing as the core fear deficit in psychopathic individuals, whereas recent approaches, such as the fear enjoyment hypothesis (FEH), propose that anomalies in the subjective experience of fear are related to interpersonal-affective psychopathic traits. In order to test predictions of the FEH, we conducted an...
- Correction: Mentalization for Offending Adult Males (MOAM): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial to evaluate mentalization-based treatment for antisocial personality disorder in male offenders on community probationby Peter Fonagy on March 14, 2025
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