title: Executive functioning in people with personality disorders.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This review summarizes recent executive functions research to better delineate the nosology of personality disorders.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This review indicates that there are consistent impairments in executive functioning in people with personality disorders as compared with matched controls. Only five disorders were considered: borderline, obsessive-compulsive, antisocial, narcissistic, and schizotypal. Significant deficits are observed in decision-making, working memory, inhibition, and flexibility. Relevant data for the remaining personality disorders have not yet been published in relation to the executive functions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  People with personality disorders could present a pattern of neurocognitive alterations that suggest a specific impairment of the prefrontal areas. The executive dysfunctions could partially explain the behavioral alterations in people with personality disorders.Further research should adopt broader considerations of effects of comorbidity and clinical heterogeneity, include community samples and, possibly, longitudinal designs with samples of youth.
authors: aDepartment of Clinical Psychology, Section of Psychopathology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain bThe Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors: Domingo
authors: D
authors: Garcia-Villamisar
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Dattilo
authors: Marta
authors: M
authors: Garcia-Martinez
mesh_terms: D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*