Happy Friday everybody! 
As you know, with that comes some weekend reading for you.
Today, we are sharing a report from research conducted in Barbados that links childhood malnutrition and maltreatment to personality disorders which persist into adulthood. It is the work of Rebecca S. Hock and her colleagues using data from the 47 year longitudinal Barbados Nutrition Study.
Published in Psychiatry Research (Volume 269, November 2018, Pages 301-308), the work, "Childhood malnutrition and maltreatment are linked with personality disorder symptoms in adulthood: Results from a Barbados lifespan cohort" found increased scores for paranoid, schizoid, avoidant, and dependent personality disorders among those who had been malnourished and increased scores for paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal.
It also found avoidant personality disorders among those with higher childhood maltreatment scores. Overall, those exposed to both adversities had even greater personality disorder scores.
(In an earlier published study (2017) the same researchers had reported that Barbadian children who suffered from malnutrition in the first year of life were also more likely to report having experienced maltreatment in childhood, particularly physical and emotional neglect.)
They referred to the ACE study of 1998 and distinguished it from the Barbados Nutrition Study (BNS) by stating that: "Unlike the BNS, the ACE study, however, does not include clinical observations of any adversity, such as malnutrition, during childhood."
To access the online report "Childhood malnutrition and maltreatment are linked with personality disorder symptoms in adulthood: Results from a Barbados lifespan cohort", please visit Science Direct - https://www.sciencedirect.com/...ii/S0165178117312763
If you rather skip that process, a PDF of the report is also attached for your convenience.
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