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brainmatters-998	Afshari, Isabelle	Understanding Common Personality Disorders: The Neurological Basis of OCD, NPD, and BPD	2025	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1989	127	36	Understanding Common Personality Disorders: the Neurological Basis of OCD, NPD, and BPD Isabelle Afshari Abstract Historically, the complexity of personality disorders has posed challenges to both diagnosis and treatment; however, with advances in technology, various studies have begun making new developments to elucidate the neurobiological causes of many of the most common personality disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), and borderline personality disorder (BPD). Because of the vast range of behaviors that can be characterized as general personality disorders, symptoms are sorted into three clusters, labeled Cluster A, Cluster B, and Cluster C. Cluster A personality disorders are considered the more “severe” types of personality disorders, with symptoms including “odd beliefs, unusual perceptual experiences, odd thinking and speech, paranoid ideation, and odd or eccentric appearance or behavior” (Esterberg, Goulding, & Walker, 2010).	cache/brainmatters-998.pdf	txt/brainmatters-998.txt