Background and Aims: The purpose of the study was to examine the role of behavioral activation-inhibition, impulsivityand alexithymia in discriminating students with symptoms of obsessive-compulsive and paranoid personality disorders from normal controls. Methods: The studied sample includes all the students in University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Iran...

in order to determine the rate of mental disorders in male prisoners, 120 men ages 18 to 28 incarcerated in ghasr prison of tehran for theft, assult, addiction, murder, unlawful sexual acts or embezzlement were selected randomly. 120 men in the same age range who were matched with the first group in terms of socio-economic characteristics were selected from normal population as a comparison gro...

BACKGROUND The 'odd' or 'Cluster A' personality disorders (PDs) - paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal PDs - were created in DSM-III with little empirical foundation. We have examined the relationship between the genetic and environmental risk factors for dimensional representations of these three personality disorders. METHOD These personality disorders were assessed using the Structured Inter...

INTRODUCTION Neuropsychological aspects of paranoid schizophrenia have still not been examined enough.These disorders are usually not studied separately, but are included in the studies about schizophrenic patients with positive symptoms. Despite the fact that schizophrenia represents a heterogeneous group of mental disorders, usually it is not separated from schizoaffective disorder in neurops...