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| rdfs:label | - Antisocial personality disorder
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| rdfs:comment | - Antisocial personality disorder or ASPD, is a psychiatric diagnosis that encompasses the formerly separated diagnoses of Psychopathy and Sociopathy. The diagnosis is established in a patient who is over the age of 18, who exhibited conduct disorder before the age of 15, where the behavior cannot be traced to schizophrenia or a manic episode and the patient exhibits at least three enumerated behaviors, It is characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for, or violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. There may be an impoverished moral sense or conscience and a history of crime, legal problems, impulsive and aggressive behavior
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| mortalityrate | - Not applicable. Can lead to criminal activity that results in death, mostly suicide.
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| symptom | - Failure to conform to social norms, constant deception, impulsiveness, irritability, aggression, recklessness, irresponsibility, lack of remorse, charm and sexual promiscuity.
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| Name | - Psychopathy
- Antisocial personality disorder
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| treatment | - No effective treatment known.
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| abstract | - Antisocial personality disorder or ASPD, is a psychiatric diagnosis that encompasses the formerly separated diagnoses of Psychopathy and Sociopathy. The diagnosis is established in a patient who is over the age of 18, who exhibited conduct disorder before the age of 15, where the behavior cannot be traced to schizophrenia or a manic episode and the patient exhibits at least three enumerated behaviors, It is characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for, or violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. There may be an impoverished moral sense or conscience and a history of crime, legal problems, impulsive and aggressive behavior The cause of ASPD is poorly understood, but it is currently belived that the disorder has a combination of both genetic and environmental causes. It is about three times more likely to be observed in males than females. A psychiatrist attempting to make the diagnosis must go through a careful differential to rule out similar conditions. Anxiety, clinical depression, addiction, sleep disorders, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissism can all masquerade as antisocial personality disorder. There is no effective treatment for antisocial personality disorder. Physicians and others merely attempt to control the behavior of the individual through diligence and exploiting the patient's behavior. Psychotherapy and other behavioral therapies are commonly used with mixed effectiveness. The most effective techniques focus on behavioral control techniques together with support for positive behavior by the patient's friends and family. No direct cause has been established for the development of ASPD. However, it has been shown that many psychopaths suffered extreme abuse during childhood. Though a fictional character, Valerie developed ASPD after suffering domestic abuse by her father. Real life mass murderer Eric Harris, who was posthumously diagnosed a psychopath, had suffered four years of school bullying at the hands of school athletes, whom he declared revenge on. The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) and the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems' (ICD) Dissocial personality disorder have similar but not identical criteria. Both have stated that their diagnosis has also been known as psychopathy or sociopathy, though the criteria are different to other commonly used assessments, and the DSM-5 now has psychopathy as an optional 'specifier' of the main diagnosis.
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