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The present research proposal aims at investigating the distinction between healthy and pathological narcissism. In particular, the role of empathy is studied.The present study is the first in which patients with narcissistic personality disorder…
The main aim of the proposal is to study the processes involved in non-chronic vs. chronic drug seeking behavior in samples of alcohol dependent persons (ADs) and pathological gamblers (PGs) with different levels of chronicity. We thereby rely on…
The aim of the study is to investigate the neurobiology of Conduct Disorder (CD) in female and male children and adolescents, and examine for sex differences in the phenotype (clinical presentation) of CD, and the relationships between CD and…
Primary Objective: Using task fMRI to assess differences in the brain activation during evaluative social feedback and script-driven emotional imagination between participants with BPD and healthy controls. Moment-to-moment self-esteem and mood…
The present study will test 1) whether childmolesters (including childpornography downloaders) show ASD symptoms, like disturbances in recognizing other*s emotions, feelings, intentions and thoughts, lack of interpersonal skills empathy deficits and…
1. Advance knowledge of the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying emotional dysregulation in borderline personality disorder. 2. Advance knowledge on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of dialectical behaviour therapy in borderline personality…
The goal of this study is to explore how preferences for appropriate interpersonal distance varies across different forensic populations.
This research proposal focuses on (i) the development and implementation of experimental approaches to identify dimensions of impulsivity, empathy and paranoia. (ii) Studying the gene-environmentinteractions which are expected to play a role in the…
Objective: Main objective of this study is to compare the area under the MPH saliva concentration versus time curve (AUC) following ingestion of immediate and sustained release formulations of MPH in children with ADHD. Secondary objectives are: 1.…
To examine whether BPD SUD patients have more overregulation of emotionsthan BPD or SUD patients only and to examine whether overregulation In BPD SUD patientsIs moderated by dissociation. And to examine whether PTSD patients with SUD have…
This study aims to identify the specific environmental influences that cause discordance in neuroticism scores in MZ twin pairs. We hypothesize that the development of high neuroticism is due to having experienced more severe and longer lasting…
1. To investigate the associations between DSM-IV personality disorder and attachment style. 2. To investigate whether attachment related anxiety and avoidance, as more fundamental personality features than the DSM-IV personality classification,…
To investigate whether emotional arousal impairs facial emotion recognition in BPD patients and how specific borderline symptomatology is related with this.
Aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and the severity index of the borderline personality disorder. Secondly, the study will investigate what differences there are in EI between patienst with borderline…
The present study will test 1) how the two versions of the dangerous world IT are related to attributional biases, i.e. hostile attributional bias and rejection attributional bias; 2) whether both versions of the dangerous world IT are related to…
The main objective of this study is to test 1) whether rejection in (forensic) psychiatric patients is related to aggression and/or withdrawn behaviour, and 2) Whether anxiety mediates the relation between rejection and withdrawn and aggressive…
The main objective is to elucidate the role of Pavlovian cues in instrumental behaviour in PPs and PASPD-Ps and its neural underpinnings. To this end we will acquire fMRI data from PPs, PASPD-Ps, and healthy controls during the performance of two…
Objective: We aim to assess whether [1] epigenetic alterations are responsible for the detrimental effects of maternal undernutrition during gestation on the offspring*s (F1) cardiovascular health, and [2] these epigenetic alterations pass down…
Emotional functioning of psychopaths and ASPD-patients with a low PCL-R score will be studied by means of psychophysiological, psychodiagnostic and risk-assessment instruments to investigate whether there are subgroups of antisocial offenders, who…
The present study aims to bridge the gap in knowledge between the risk factors for CD and the developmental pathways to pyschopathy, antisocial personality disorder, and antisocial behaviour. The central question is whether antisocial and…