Reflective functioning in patients with panic disorder with or without agoraphobia: an examination of the effects of comorbid personality disorders by Tempe A. Watts Advisers: Diana Diamond, Ph.D. and Barbara Milrod, M.D. This study examined reflective functioning (RF) in patients who experience a combination of panic and personality disorders (PD). Despite broadly accepted beliefs that comorbi...

Sensory gating deficits are seen in individuals with schizophrenia and schizotypal disorders, yet smoking influence, regional or lateral difference effects are rarely assessed. We examined sensory gating in smokers and non-smokers within university-level high and low schizotypal personality (HiS and LoS) groups using [Raine, A., 1991. The Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ): A measure o...

The identification of individuals carrying unexpressed genetic liability to schizophrenia is crucial for both etiological research and clinical risk stratification. Subclinical psychopathological features detectable in the nonpsychotic part of the schizophrenia spectrum could improve the delineation of informative vulnerability phenotypes. Inspired by Meehl's schizotaxia-schizotypy heuristic mo...

Larrison, Abigail L., Carolyn F. Ferrante, Kevin A. Briand, Anne B. Sereno: Schizotypal Traits, Attention and Eye Movements. Prog. Neuro-Psychopharmacol. & Biol. Psychiat. 2000,24, pp. 357-372. 02000 Elscvicr S&n= Inc. 1. Subjects demonstrating high, average, or low schizotypal traits participated in saccade tasks of eye movements and attention including: a simple saccade task, an antisaccade t...

The study examines the relationship between Asperger’s Disorder (AD) and Abstract: Schizotypal Personality Disorder (SPD), mutually exclusive but similar diagnoses [DSM-IV-TR; American Psychiatric Association (2000).Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Washington, DC: Author]. The literature and comparison of diagnostic criteria suggest that the two disorders may overlap: AD s...

This study sought to extend previous work on the five-factor dimensional model (FFM) of personality disorder (PD) by developing more comprehensive FFM descriptions of prototypic cases. Specifically, the authors asked experts in each of the 10 DSM-IV PDs to rate the prototypic case by using all 30 facets of the FFM. Aggregating across raters of the given disorder generated a prototype for each d...

the mean age of ftd onset is much younger than that of alzheimers disease. behavioral disturbances occur in early stages of ftd, and social dysfunction and personality deterioration may ensue. for this reason, it may be misdiagnosed with other psychiatric disorders. therefore, more careful observation and concern is required for proper diagnosis. our report is about a patient who was misdiagnos...