Biological Bases Of Behavior: The Antisocial Person

Biological Bases of Behavior

Craig Crawford

Fielding Graduate University

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Biological Bases of Behavior

The Antisocial Person

In the article “The antisocial person: an insight in to biology, classification and current evidence on treatment” authors Rodrigo, Rajapakse and Jayananda (2010) explored PubMed looking for published English articles between 1999 to 2009 with the search words, antisocial personality disorder, dissocial personality disorder, and psychopathy. The purpose of the literature search was to

What was interesting to me was the different strategies used to treat antisocial personality disorder. Some therapist used individual therapy and other used group therapies, this support the purpose of this research conducted by Rodrigo, Rajapakse, and Jayananda. There appears to be a lack in evidence-based treatments for ASPD. One question that I have is why didn’t researchers use the search term biofeedback for antisocial personality disorders? My rationale for this is because biofeedback could have been an interesting research topic for people with ASPD. Using biofeedback could have effective at showing the client their bodies response to their emotion, in hopes of accelerating the treatment. Sometimes a visual representation of emotions can have a drastic impact on client’s future

For example, researchers are still unaware that whether differences in the biology of anxiety disorders between children and adults are a consequence of chronicity. I thought the article was very interesting. I learned about a number of challenges that can be used when researching anxiety. I also learned that anxiety is different in a 5-year-old compared to a thirteen-year-old. After ruminating on this it also seems like common sense, but it was not until I read the article that I understood that there were biological differences. I would not have expected for research to be more on adults than children because when I think of anxiety, I see a child afraid of the dentist or going to day care for the first day. One question that I have is if researchers ever considered flooding the client with anxiety as a treatment before medication such as the serotonergic function which can mediate fear? My rationale for asking this is because flooding has been used for decades to mediate anxiety and the most fascinating part about it is that most clients report loss of anxiety or reduced amount of anxiety after only one or two