Sentences with phrase «adult psychopathic»

These traits comprise low levels of guilt and shame, and a lack of empathy, and can be thought of as the downward extension of the affective and interpersonal characteristics of adult psychopathic personality traits [2].

Adult psychopathic personality with childhood - onset hyperactivity and conduct disorder: A central problem constellation in forensic psychiatry.

In 1987, they heard psychiatrist Elliott T. Barker give a keynote address on «The Critical Importance of Mothering» in which he linked adult psychopathic behavior to extreme disruptions in attachment.

Not exact matches

Some, but definitively not all, people who have had one or both disorder are at greater risk for antisocial or psychopathic personalities as adults.

Ever wondered why there are children who end up becoming psychopathic adults who go about committing heinous crimes?

Many of these children are violent and aggressive and as adults are at risk of developing a variety of psychological problems and personality disorders, including antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and psychopathic personality disorder.

While CU traits in children are thought of by some as analogous to psychopathic personality traits in adults, the relationship between these traits and the function of neurochemical systems may not be the same in child and adult populations.

Analyses with CU traits indicate that adolescents with high levels of CU traits show a pattern of «inverted» social reward, in a similar manner to adults with high levels of psychopathic traits [13].

The associations between the three factors of psychopathy and personality traits — assessed by means of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI, Andershed et al. 2002) and the Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness Personality Inventory - Revised (NEO PI - R; Costa and McCrae 1992)-- were explored in a community sample of 152 male adolescents and young adults.

Psychopathic traits, previously considered as a meaningful (negative) specifier for severe antisocial and aggressive behaviours in adult psychopathology, have been re-discovered as a relevant factor in subtyping CD in youth [6].

Furthermore, low levels of serotonin in the basolateral amygdala are related to reductions in the conditioned fear response — a response which is reliably impaired in adults with high levels of psychopathic personality (CU traits)[16], [17].

We also hypothesized that CU traits would show a pattern of «inverted» social reward, in which adolescents with high levels of these traits report more enjoyment of negative social potency and less enjoyment of prosocial interactions, in line with our previous findings from adults with high levels of psychopathic traits [12,13].

Specifically, adults with high levels of psychopathic traits display an «inverted» pattern of social reward, in which they report that being cruel towards others is enjoyable and being kind is not.