There is great interest in environmental effects on the development and evolution of animal personality traits. An important component of an individual's environment is its social environment. However, few studies look beyond dyadic relationships and try to place the personality of individuals in the context of a social network. Social network analysis provides us with many new metrics to chara...

INTRODUCTION In the forensic setting, diagnosis of sequels and determination of the legal periods are central to the assessment of traumatic brain injury (TBI). The analysis of the relationship between descriptors of TBI and legal periods is undertaken. METHOD Retrospective study of 50 TBI. Demographic information, severity and characteristics of the TBI, neuroimaging data, treatments, legal ...

Following a high profile murder in 1996, the government in England moved to involuntarily contain individuals, almost all men, who were thought to be at risk of violence and to have a personality disorder. In 2008 the Dangerous Severe Personality Disorder program of assessment, commitment and treatment for this newly defined legal category of persons went into effect. The program was initially ...