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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…
The objective of this study is to describe the process of application as well as the outcomes of a Collaborative Care program provided for patients with severe personality disorders in specialized mental health care. The following research questions…
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…
To investigate whether emotional arousal impairs facial emotion recognition in BPD patients and how specific borderline symptomatology is related with this.
The goal of this study is to explore how preferences for appropriate interpersonal distance varies across different forensic populations.
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 main objectives of this study are to (I) investigate characteristics of children and adolescents with CD and/or ODD in comparison with typically developing (TD) controls and (II) examine subtypes of aggression on the behavioural, cognitive,…
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 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of this study is to test 1) whether rejection in (forensic) psychiatric patients is related to aggression and/or withdrawn behaviour, and 2) Whether anxiety mediates the relation between rejection and withdrawn and aggressive…
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,…
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…
This study is a systematic evaluation of the (explicit and implicit) processing of facial emotions and learning based on facial emotions. In the first part we will investigate recognition of different facial emotions, at varying intensities.…
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…
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…
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…
The first objective discussed in this proposal is an attempt to investigate the effect of a social setting on the susceptibility of criminal psycho-pathic individuals to cues signaling error commission. The second objective is aimed at exploring the…