​Psychology Seminar | Antisocial Personality as a Neurodevelopmental Disorder

All are welcome to attend the seminar.

Although antisocial personality disorder (APD) is one of the most researched personality disorders, it is still surprisingly resistant to change. This lack of clinical progress may partly lie in the failure to view APD as a neurodevelopmental disorder and to consider early interventions. After first defining what constitutes a neurodevelopmental disorder, this presentation evaluates the extent to which AOD meets neurodevelopmental criteria, covering structural and functional brain imaging, neurocognition, genetics and epigenetics, neurochemistry, and early health risk factors. Prevention and intervention strategies for APD are then outlined, focusing on addressing early biological and health systems, followed by forensic and clinical implications. It is argued both that APD meets criteria for consideration as neurodevelopmental disorder, and that consideration be given to both to early onset conduct disorder being neurodevelopmental in nature, and also the inclusion of psychopathy as a specifier in future Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) revisions of APD.