title: [Adolescence and psychopathy].
abstract: Personality disorder refers to pervasive and inflexible behaviour causing problems in everyday life. Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by lack of guilt, poorly developed empathy, manipulative behaviour and callousness. According to most researchers, adult psychopathy has its roots in childhood conduct disorder, although the applicability of psychopathy in adolescents has been questioned. Psychopathic features have, however, raised increased interest in the field of adolescent psychiatry and promising findings have been published concerning both biological and psychosocial underpinnings of this phenomenon.
authors.affiliation: HUS/HYKS, psykiatrian tulosyksikkö, nuorisopsykiatrian klinikkaryhmä, Psykiatriakeskus.
authors.forename: Nina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lindberg
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*