addiction psychopathy
Conditions
Interventions
Addiction
Antisocial behaviour
Neuropsychology
Psychopathy
Sponsors
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 64 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: All (wo)men aged 18-65 incarcerated in or in treatment at the partcipating (forensic) psychiatric facilities, who have signed an informed consent form, including: - personality disordered patients; - addicted patients; - patients with all other psychiatric disorders, besides psychotic disorders; - delinquents with known disorder; - delinquents without (knwon) disorder; - healthy people recruited from general population, who don't meet exclusion criteria;
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Schizofrenic / active psychotic patients or bipolar disorderd patients with psychotic features - adminstered use of anti-psychotic medication; - colorblindness of other visual impairment - IQ 65, - controlgroep: * AUDIT-score >20 (indicatief voor alcoholafhankelijkheid) * DUDIT-score >25 (indicatief voor drugsafhankelijkheid)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Examined is wether psychopathic patients (PCL-R totalscore >25) and addicted patients PCL-R-score * 25 & primary DSM-classification of a Substance Use Disorder) can be distinguished, based on a cognitive profile of their individual performance (measured in reaction time and accuracy) on five experimental tasks. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Examined is wether in patients, which are classified as having a 'double diagnosis' (i.e. being diagnosed with both psychopathy (PCL-R totalscore >25) and a substance use disorder (DSM-classification), there primary diagnoses can be distinguished based on their cognitive profile. In the regression model, age, intelligence, medication, personality and performance on the neuropsychological screening are added as covariables in order to clarify the unique predictive validity of the experimental tasks. | — |
Countries
The Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed