The following resources on personality disorders focus specifically on psychophysiology and neuropsychology research published since 1997. This portion of the bibliography was compiled by the former Personality Disorders Foundation.
Psychophysiology and Neuropsychology
Aromaki AS, Lindman RE, & Eriksson CJ. Testosterone, sexuality and antisocial personality in rapists and child molesters: A pilot study. Psychiatry Research. 2002 Jul 31;110(3):239-47.
Barratt ES, Stanford MS, Kent TA, & Felthous A. Neuropsychological and cognitive psychophysiological substrates of impulsive aggression. Biological Psychiatry. 1997 May 15;41(10):1045-61.
Bernstein A, Newman JP, Wallace JF, & Luh KE. Left-hemisphere activation and deficient response modulation in psychopaths. Psychological Science. 2000 Sep;11(5):414-8.
Bergvall AH, Nilsson T, & Hansen S. Exploring the link between character, personality disorder, and neuropsychological function. European Psychiatry: The Journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists. 2003 Nov;18(7):334-44.
Blair RJ. Neurocognitive models of aggression, the antisocial personality disorders, and psychopathy. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. 2001 Dec;71(6):727-31. Review.
Blair RJ, Colledge E, & Mitchell DG. Somatic markers and response reversal: Is there orbitofrontal cortex dysfunction in boys with psychopathic tendencies? Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 2001 Dec;29(6):499-511.
Bohus M, Limberger M, Ebner U, et al. Pain perception during self-reported distress and calmness in patients with borderline personality disorder and self-mutilating behavior. Psychiatry Research. 2000 Sep 11;95(3):251-60.
Braunstein-Bercovitz H, Rammsayer T, Gibbons H, & Lubow RE. Latent inhibition deficits in high-schizotypal normals: Symptom-specific or anxiety-related? Schizophrenia Research. 2002 Jan 1;53(1-2):109-21.
Cadenhead KS, Light GA, Geyer MA, & Braff DL. Sensory gating deficits assessed by the P50 event-related potential in subjects with schizotypal personality disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2000 Jan;157(1):55-9.
Cadenhead KS, Swerdlow NR, Shafer KM, et al. Modulation of the startle response and startle laterality in relatives of schizophrenic patients and in subjects with schizotypal personality disorder: Evidence of inhibitory deficits. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2000 Oct;157(10):1660-8.
Costa L, & Bauer LO. Smooth pursuit eye movement dysfunction in substance-dependent patients: Mediating effects of antisocial personality disorder. Neuropsychobiology. 1998;37(3):117-23.
Dinn WM, & Harris CL. Neurocognitive function in antisocial personality disorder. Psychiatry Research. 2000 Dec 27;97(2-3):173-90.
Dolan M, & Park I. The neuropsychology of antisocial personality disorder. Psychological Medicine. 2002 Apr;32(3):417-27.
Duchene A, Graves RE, & Brugger P. Schizotypal thinking and associative processing: A response commonality analysis of verbal fluency. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 1998 Jan;23(l):55-60.
Flor H, Birbaumer N, & Hermann C. Aversive Pavlovian conditioning in psychopaths: Peripheral and central correlates. Psychophysiology. 2002 Jul;39(4):505-18.
Fowles DC. Electrodermal hyporeactivity and antisocial behavior: Does anxiety mediate the relationship? Journal of Affective Disorders. 2000 Dec;61(3):177-89. Review.
Granholm E, Cadenhead K, Shafer KM, & Filoteo JV. Lateralized perceptual organization deficits on the global-local task in schizotypal personality disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 2002 Feb;111(1):42-52.
Hazlett EA, Levine J, Buchsbaum MS, et al. Deficient attentional modulation of the startle response in patients with schizotypal personality disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2003 Sep;160(9):1621-6.
Herpertz SC. Emotional processing in personality disorder. Current Psychiatry Reports. 2003 May;5(1):23-7. Review.
Herpertz SC, Schwenger UB, Kunert HJ, et al. Emotional responses in patients with borderline as compared with avoidant personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders. 2000 Winter;14(4):339-51.
Herpertz SC, Wenning B, Mueller B, et al. Psychophysiological responses in ADHD boys with and without conduct disorder: Implications for adult antisocial behavior. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2001 Oct;40(10):1222-30.
Ishikawa SS, Raine A, Lencz T, et al. Autonomic stress reactivity and executive functions in successful and unsuccessful criminal psychopaths from the community. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 2001 Aug;110(3):423-32.
Jensen J, Lindgren M, Meurling AW, et al. Dyslexia among Swedish prison inmates in relation to neuropsychology and personality. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 1999 Jul;5(5):452-61.
Kemperman I, Russ MJ, Clark WC, et al. Pain assessment in self-injurious patients with borderline personality disorder using signal detection theory. Psychiatry Research. 1997 May 30;70(3):175-83.
Kemperman I, Russ MJ, & Shearin E. Self-injurious behavior and mood regulation in borderline patients. Journal of Personality Disorders. 1997 Summer;11(2):146-57.
Kiehl KA, Smith AM, Hare RD, & Liddle PF. An event-related potential investigation of response inhibition in schizophrenia and psychopathy. Biological Psychiatry. 2000 Aug 1;48(3):210-21.
Kirrane RM, Mitropoulou V, Nunn M, et al. Physostigmine and cognition in schizotypal personality disorder. Schizophrenia Research. 2001 Mar 1;48(1):1-5.
Kopp B, Wolff M, Hruska C, & Reischies FM. Brain mechanisms of visual encoding and working memory in psychometrically identified schizotypal individuals and after acute administration of haloperidol. Psychophysiology. 2002 Jul;39(4):459-72.
Kosson DS, Suchy Y, Mayer AR, & Libby J. Facial affect recognition in criminal psychopaths. Emotion. 2002 Dec;2(4):398-411.
Levine D, Marziali E, & Hood J. Emotion processing in borderline personality disorders. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 1997 Apr;185(4):240-6.
Lindberg N, Tani P, Appelberg B, et al. Sleep among habitually violent offenders with antisocial personality disorder. Neuropsychobiology. 2003;47(4):198-205.
Lorenz AR, & Newman JP. Utilization of emotion cues in male and female offenders with antisocial personality disorder: Results from a lexical decision task. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 2002 Aug;111(3):513-6.
Lorenz AR, Newman JP. Deficient response modulation and emotion processing in low-anxious Caucasian psychopathic offenders: Results from a lexical decision task. Emotion. 2002 Jun;2(2):91-104.
Lubow RE, & De la Casa G. Latent inhibition as a function of schizotypality and gender: Implications for schizophrenia. Biological Psychology. 2002 Feb;59(1):69-86.
Mannan MR, Hiramatsu KI, Hokama H, & Ohta H. Abnormalities of auditory event-related potentials in students with schizotypal personality disorder. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 2001 Oct;55(5):451-7.
Moriarty PJ, Harvey PD, Mitropoulou V, et al. Reduced processing resource availability in schizotypal personality disorder: Evidence from a dual-task CPT study. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 2003 May;25(3):335-47.
Morgan AB, & Lilienfeld SO. A meta-analytic review of the relation between antisocial behavior and neuropsychological measures of executive function. Clinical Psychology Review. 2000 Jan;20(1):113-36.
Niznikiewicz MA, Voglmaier MM, Shenton ME, et al. Lateralized P3 deficit in schizotypal personality disorder. Biological Psychiatry. 2000 Oct 1;48(7):702-5.
Norra C, Mrazek M, Tuchtenhagen F, et al. Enhanced intensity dependence as a marker of low serotonergic neurotransmission in borderline personality disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2003 Jan-Feb;37(1):23-33.
O'Driscoll GA, Lenzenweger MF, Holzman PS, et al. Antisaccades and smooth pursuit eye tracking and schizotypy. Archives of General Psychiatry. 1998 Sep;55(9):837-43.
Pedersen A, & Rist F. Implicit memory in schizotypal subjects and normal controls: Effects of a secondary task on sequence learning. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 2001 Apr;92(2):349-67.
Raine A, & Green MF. Schizophrenia and schizotypal personality: A tribute to Peter H. Venables. Schizophrenia Research. 2002 Mar 1;54(1-2):1-5.
Raine A, Venables PH, Mednick S, & Mellingen K. Increased psychophysiological arousal and orienting at ages 3 and 11 years in persistently schizotypal adults. Schizophrenia Research. 2002 Mar 1;54(1-2):77-85.
Roitman SE, Mitropoulou V, Keefe RS, et al. Visuospatial working memory in schizotypal personality disorder patients. Schizophrenia Research. 2000 Feb 14;41(3):447-55.
Sarkin AJ. Time estimation and the crossover effect in schizotypal and nonschizotypal students. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 2002 Jul;190(7):483-7.
Steel C, Hemsley DR, & Pickering AD. Distractor cueing effects on choice reaction time and their relationship with schizotypal personality. British Journal of Clinical Psychology. 2002 Jun;41(Pt 2):143-56.
Stevens MC, Kaplan RF, & Bauer LO. Relationship of cognitive ability to the developmental course of antisocial behavior in substance-dependent patients. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry. 2001 Nov;25(8):1523-36.
Stiglmayr CE, Shapiro DA, Stieglitz RD, et al. Experience of aversive tension and dissociation in female patients with borderline personality disorder - a controlled study. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2001 Mar-Apr;35(2):111-8.
Suhr JA. Executive functioning deficits in hypothetically psychosis-prone college students. Schizophrenia Research. 1997 Oct 17;27(i):29-35.
Voglmaier MM, Seidman LJ, Niznikiewicz MA, et al. Verbal and nonverbal neuropsychological test performance in subjects with schizotypal personality disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2000 May;157(5):787-93.
Weike AI, Hamm AO, & Vaitl D. Sensorimotor gating and attitudes related to schizotypal proneness. Psychological Reports. 2001 Jun;88(3 Pt 2):1035-45.
Zlot SI, Herrmann M, & Hofer-Mayer T. A comparison of self-concept and personality disorders in women with pain accounted for by psychological factors, women with major depression, and healthy controls. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine. 2001;31(1):61-71.
This page was last reviewed by Dr Greg Mulhauser, Thursday, 14 October 2021.