Alcoholics With Antisocial And Borderline Personality Disorders
Impulsivity is a problem common to many different personality and psychiatric disorders, including alcoholism. A new study that looked at impulsivity among alcoholic subpopulations has found that, one, the inability to delay gratification may be a vulnerability marker for alcoholism, and two, certain inhibitory-control issues may be specific to antisocial and borderline personality disorders. [click link for full article]
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Filed under: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs on October 25th, 2007