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Antisocial Personality Disorder MeSH Descriptor Data 2026
A personality disorder whose essential feature is a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. The individual must be at least age 18 and must have a history of some symptoms of CONDUCT DISORDER before age 15. (From DSM-IV, 1994).
81; was ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY 1976-80, was SOCIOPATHIC PERSONALITY 1963-75
Online Note
use ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER to search ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY 1976-80 & SOCIOPATHIC PERSONALITY 1966-75
History Note
81; was ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY 1976-80, was ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY see under SOCIOPATHIC PERSONALITY 1969-75; SOCIOPATHIC PERSONALITY was heading 1963-75
A personality disorder whose essential feature is a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. The individual must be at least age 18 and must have a history of some symptoms of CONDUCT DISORDER before age 15. (From DSM-IV, 1994).