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Personality Disorders: Myths and Neuroscience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Stefano Pallanti
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Abstract

In the field of personality, the application of neuroscientific techniques is faced with a clinical category that is still unsatisfactory. The adoption of a coevolutionist, perspective-associated, multidimensional construct is a suggested way to improve clinical models to match the sophisticated techniques of neuroscience.

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CNS Spectrums , Volume 2 , Issue 9: Reflections on the Future of Neuroscience , October 1997 , pp. 53 - 54,56-63
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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