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Article: Research from S. Ullrich and co-researchers provides new data on personality disorders.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- May 27, 2009
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"Stability over time is an essential criterion for the diagnosis of a personality disorder (PD) according to DSM-IV and ICD-10. However, both longitudinal and cross-sectional studies have demonstrated considerable changes of personality disorder traits during life-span. an observation which challenges this assumption," researchers in London, the United Kingdom report (see also Personality Disorders).
"We measured self-reported DSM-IV personality disorder traits in a nationally representative community sample using a cross-sectional design. We investigated the association of dimensional PD scores with age. Our analyses confirmed a decreasing prevalence of ...