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Personality Disorders and Addiction Disorders

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The population with dual disorders /pathology (addiction and other mental disorders) is heterogeneous and the prevalence of comorbidity differs according to diagnostic groups. One of the overarching issues in relation to comorbidity is the nature of the connection between addiction disorders and other psychiatric disorders. The rapid development of technical advances in neuroscience has led to a better understanding of the molecular biology, neurotransmitter systems, and neural circuitry involved in substance use disorders and other mental disorders.

Addictive behaviors associated with other psychiatric disorders, which we refer to as dual pathology, are probably neurodevelopmental disorders (Szerman et al. 2013). These are disorders that begin very early in development and may present with different phenotypes, such as addiction-related or other psychiatric symptoms, at different stages during a person’s lifetime.

From the clinical point of view, we know that one of the...

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Szerman, N., Peris, L. (2015). Personality Disorders and Addiction Disorders. In: el-Guebaly, N., Carrà, G., Galanter, M. (eds) Textbook of Addiction Treatment: International Perspectives. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5322-9_120

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