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Objective: No research has been conducted on facial emotional recognition on patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and schizotypal personality disorder (SPD). The present study aimed at comparing facial emotion recognition in these patients with the general population. The neurocognitive processing of emotions can show the pathologic style of these 2 disorders. Method: Twenty BPD patients, 16 SPD patients, and 20 healthy individuals were selected by available sampling method. Structural Clinical Interview for Axis II, Millon Personality Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory and Facial Emotional Recognition Test was were conducted for all participants. Discussion: The results of one way ANOVA and Scheffe's post hoc test analysis revealed significant differences in neuropsychology assessment of facial emotional recognition between BPD and SPD patients with normal group (p = 0/001). A significant difference was found in emotion recognition of fear between the 2 groups of BPD and normal population (p = 0/008). A significant difference was observed between SPD patients and control group in emotion recognition of wonder (p = 0/04). The obtained results indicated a deficit in negative emotion recognition, especially disgust emotion, thus, it can be concluded that these patients have the same neurocognitive profile in the emotion domain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Personality is one of the most important factors affecting the treatment course of patients with psychiatric disorders. Objective: The present study aimed to find the possible relationship between personality factors and response to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors treatment for major depression. Method: One hundred and seven patients with mild or moderate major depression treated with citalopram, sertraline or fluoxetine for two months enrolled in the present prospective study. Every patients were evaluated by Hamilton depression test (as pre-test and post-test) and Temperament and Character Inventory questionnaire (as pre-test) and their response to treatment evaluated base on their Hamilton depression test. Results: The mean age of the patients was 39.7 years and most of the population were female (71.9%). The results showed that reward dependence (OR=1.18, P =0.05), age (OR=1.07, P=0.002) and cooperativeness (OR=0.76, P <0.001) had significant effect on the likelihood of being non-responsiveness to the treatment. Logistic regression showed that the effect of temperament and character, gender, age, and depression score at the beginning of the treatment indicated that only cooperativeness (B =-0.21, P<0.01) predicted response to treatment. Conclusion: Temperament and character or at least some of their traits may predispose response to depression treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]