Prediction of alcohol use disorder using personality disorder traits: a twin study

ConclusionsConduct disorder and self‐harming impulsivity are the foremost risk traits for alcohol use disorder (AUD) among the 80 personality disorder criteria of DSM‐IV, predicting AUD better than personality disorder diagnoses. The twin‐study analysis suggested that conduct disorder represents a joint genetic and developmental risk for alcohol use disorder and that impulsivity is a genetic risk.

Source: Addiction - July 22, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Tom Rosenstr öm, Fartein Ask Torvik, Eivind Ystrom, Nikolai Olavi Czajkowski, Nathan A. Gillespie, Steven H. Aggen, Robert F. Krueger, Kenneth S. Kendler, Ted Reichborn‐Kjennerud Tags: Research Report Source Type: research