In recent years, dimensional models of personality disorder have become increasingly influential, particularly among trait psychologists and personality researchers. Two prominent examples are the ICD ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from the United States of America conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on personality traits to identify ...

People with BPD often have a biological predisposition to experience emotions more intensely and to be especially sensitive ...

An international team led by the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim has presented the largest genome-wide ...

Shared genetic architecture may explain the co-occurrence of psychiatric disorders and metabolic abnormalities such as insulin resistance.

Everyone's diagnosing everyone with narcissism on the thinnest of criteria these days, but it turns out there is one way to detect a potential personality disorder in a person: their speech patterns.

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 ...