Comorbidities and Biological Correlates of Conduct Disorder

摘要: Chronic antisocial syndromes in adulthood are preceded by behavior childhood and adolescence (Robins, 1966, 1978). The near-universality of this sequence is codified the DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) definition Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD), diagnostic criterion requiring that Conduct (CD) originated before age 15 years. Unlike category APD, psychopathy measured dimensionally, it has no essential requirements even when dimension score cutpoints applied to make a categorical distinction. Documentation youthful onset can only raise dimensional affecting two (of total 20) items from Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised PCL-R (Hare, 1991) refer during developmental period—early problems juvenile delinquency. Yet, origin just as axiomatic for APD 1970).