Main description:

Personality disorders are highly prevalent and cause a substantial amount of human suffering and harm-not only to the individuals and families directly affected, but also to the population at large. These disorders generally have a heritability rate that is in excess of fifty percent, strongly suggesting that the behavioral disturbance they cause have a significant biomedical etiology. However, knowledge about the biological nature of personality disorders-and
effective treatment of the latter-is significantly lacking. Although basic biological principles have overall served well in the foundation of psychiatry, they have received relatively little attention with regard to the areas of personality, temperament, and personality disorders.

Neurobiology of Personality Disorders is the first book to focus specifically on the neurobiology of disturbed personality. It provides a thorough outline of the principles of neural science that mediate personality and describe what is currently known about how these biological processes are impaired in individuals with personality disorders. Its team of editors and authors are among the most frequently published and highly renowned international neuroscientists in the field of
personality disorders, and its coverage of topics is comprehensive, authoritative, and heuristic.

Contents:

Preface

1. Neurocircuitry of Affective, Cognitive, Regulatory Systems
Annmarie McNamara and K. Luan Phan

2. The Fundamentals of Brain Neurotransmission
Robert O. Friedel and Stephen M. Stahl

3. Genetics of Personality Disorders
Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud and Kenneth S. Kendler

4. Cognitive Neuroscience Approaches to Personality Disorders
Andrew Poppe and Angus W. MacDonald III

5. Minding the Emotional Thermostat: Integrating social cognitive and affective neuroscience evidence to form a model of the cognitive control of emotion
Bryan T. Denny and Kevin N. Ochsner

6. The Neurobiology of Attachment and Mentalizing: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective
Patrick Luyten and Peter Fonagy

7. Emotion Regulation
Katja Bertsch, Karold Koenigsberg, Inga Niedtfeld, and Christian Schmahl

8. The Clinical Neuroscience of Impulsive Aggression
Royce Lee, Jennifer R. Fanning, and Emil F. Coccaro

9. Social Cognition in Personality Disorders
Stefanie Lis, Nicole E. Derish, M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez

10. Attachment in Personality Disorders
M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez, Nicole E. Derish, Nerea Palomares, Sukhbir Kaur, Armando Cuesta-Diaz, and Stefanie Lis

11. Suicide and Non-Suicidal Self Injury
Paul Soloff, Christian Schmahl

12. The Neurobiology and Genetics of Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Daniel R. Rossell and Larry J. Siever

13. The Neurobiological Basis of Borderline Personality Disorder
Robert O. Friedel, Christian Schmahl, and Marijn Distel

14. The Neurobiology of antisocial Disorder Focusing on Psychopathy
Michael Baliousis, Najat Khalifa, and Birgit Vollm

15. The Neurobiological Basis of Avoidant Personality Disorder
Theresa Wilberg and Kenneth Silk

16. Established and Novel Pharmacological Approaches to the Treatment of Personality Disorders
S. Charles Schulz and Robert O. Friedel

17. Neurobiological Underpinnings of Psychosocial Treatment in Personality Disorders
Marianne Goodman, Jennifer Chen, and Erin A. Hazlett

18. Conclusion and Future Directions
Robert O. Friedel, K. Luan Pham, and Christian Schmahl