Schizotypal Personality Disorder
People with schizotypal personality disorder are loners who prefer to keep their distance from others and are uncomfortable being in relationships. They sometimes exhibit odd speech or behavior, and they have a limited or flat range of emotions. This pattern begins early in adulthood and continues throughout life.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: PW197
Diagnosis: Schizotypal Personality Disorder
US Patients: 3% of general population
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: Higher %s if relatives have schizophrenia
Age Onset:
Brain Area:
Symptoms: social anxieties; thought disorders, paranoia, feeling detached from self or others, psychosis (reality-unreality) unusual beliefs
Progression: fear realationships with others; some go on to full schizophrenia, social withdrawal
Causes: childhood neglect or abuse, family dysfunction, inappropriate interpretations of social cues,
Medications: traditional neuroleptics, lamotrigine, an anti-convulsant helps with social isolation
Therapies:
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Support Group: sczaction.org; 800-493-2094
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Section 12.08.
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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The world-wide medical research
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PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Neuro- and social-cognition in schizotypal personality disorder and schizophrenia: A spectrum of severityby Kim E Goldstein on March 21, 2025
Despite the significant number of impairments shared by diagnostic groups on the schizophrenia-phenotypic-spectrum, no work has directly compared neuro- and social-cognition of individuals with schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) with that of schizophrenia. This is the first study to compare social-cognition and neuro-cognition across schizophrenia-spectrum-diagnostic groups and explore associations (1) between neuro- and social-cognition in these groups and (2) between change-over-time...
- Clinical characteristics of a sample of 90 detainees for jihadist terrorismby Guillaume Monod on March 15, 2025
CONCLUSION: Our study thus contributes to the development of new criteria for the detection, assessment and management of people radicalized and committing acts of jihadist terrorism.
- Predictive role of exteroceptive and interoceptive bodily dimensions to schizotypal personality traitsby M R Pasciucco on March 6, 2025
The phenomenological approach to schizophrenia emphasizes the role of bodily experiences in the onset and manifestation of positive, negative and disorganized psychotic symptoms. According to the dimensional approach to psychosis, there exists a continuum ranging from individuals with low levels of schizotypy to diagnosed schizophrenia patients, with schizotypy encompassing positive-like, negative-like, and disorganized-like symptoms of schizophrenia. Empirical evidence suggests that along this...
- Differential Association of Schizotypy Dimensions With Brain Structural Connectivity and Moderation by Schizophrenia Polygenic Riskby Jonas Hoffmann on March 4, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: Our results support a neurobiological continuum model of structural connectivity across psychosis proneness, emphasizing differential association with different schizotypy facets. Genetic schizophrenia risk, however, appears to impact only some of these associations, highlighting the need for further studies to understand the contribution of other genetic and/or environmental factors.