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Recent advances in the biological study of personality disorders.
The Psychiatric clinics of North America - 1 Sept 2008
New Antonia S, Goodman Marianne, Triebwasser Joseph, Siever Larry J
Abstract excerpt
While it is premature to provide a simple model for the vulnerability to the development of either borderline (BPD) or schizotypal (SPD) personality disorder, it is clear that these heritable disorders lend themselves to fruitful neurobiological exploration. The most promising findings in BPD suggest that a diminished top-down control of affective responses, which is likely to relate to deceased responsiveness of...
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