A new neuroimaging study suggests that adolescents with borderline personality disorder exhibit distinct patterns of brain ...

Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone's everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research that suggests you can, and often sooner than you might expect. Caricature ...

Symptoms of ASPD can start in childhood and may include manipulative and reckless behaviors. ASPD often co-occurs with other mental health conditions, which makes it harder to treat. Up to 31% of ...

Schizoid and paranoid personality disorders have key differences. Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) leads people to think that others are trying to harm them, while schizoid personality disorder ...

Mental health disorders come in many forms and affect thoughts, emotions and behaviors in complex ways. Conditions like anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder are among the most frequently diagnosed ...

Comorbidity is when a person has more than one health condition at once. Researchers investigating the comorbidity of personality disorders have found people with certain disorders may have other ...

AFTER several weeks of deep reflection and learning, we have come to the end of our long journey through personality disorders. Together, we explored the three clusters, A, B, and C, unpacking ...

Rates of bipolar disorder diagnoses have been rising for decades, causing concern among experts that the condition is overdiagnosed. Because bipolar disorder overlaps with other illnesses, ...

Narcissistic personality disorder, also known as narcissism or excessive self-love, is a mental illness. Patients with this condition are self-centered, inflate their own egos, and crave admiration ...

It's not about the ways you're different, but rather how society perceives you. Research has long shown it's human nature to fear what we don’t understand. It appears any kind of uncertainty or ...

Women who kill are not characterized by psychopathy. Instead, they act primarily because they feel provoked and threatened. At the same time, there is a certain degree of planning among the group of ...