The Neural Base of Personality and Adulthood Behavioral Disorders

Dear Colleagues,

Social events are influenced by individuals who sometimes, unfortunately, are suffering from personality disorders or other severe adulthood behavioral problems. Scientific advances in recent years have explained part of the mechanisms behind these disorders, but both a broader and deeper understanding of them is still needed (due to existing poor diagnoses and management for these disorders). In this Special Issue, we would like to address their neural contributions to these problems with updated technologies through cutting-edge research. Areas mainly cover the different domains of personality disorder, such as the paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant, dependent, and the obsessive compulsive types; and also, various areas of abnormal adulthood behaviors, such as emotional dysregulation/control, abuse of alcohol or drugs, body image fixations, eating and sexual disorders, complex disorders, and those related to dual diagnosis. Methodologies might be focused on either one or a combination of neurocellular, neurochemical, neuroendocrinological, neurophysiological or neuroimaging technologies.

Prof. Dr. Wei Wang
Prof. Dr. Kerry Jang
Guest Editors

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