Psychological tests and Myriam Christina A.

Rodrigues
neurosciences of mental Master Behavior Sciences
Neuropsychology Specialist
disorders
Outline the personality profile
in 13 psychological needs or
motives:
Assistance, Intraception,
cuddling, autonomy,
deference, affiliation,
dominance, performance,
display, aggression, order,
persistence and change.
Second-order factors: affective
needs; Organizational needs;
and need for control and
opposition.
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 IFP-II-TEA
100

IFP-II 90

80

TEA – 70

Autistic 60

50

Spectrum 40

disorder
30

20

10

0
Ass Intr Af Def Afil Domin Des Exib Agres Ord Pers Mud Auton AFET ORGAN CON/OP

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 Fast and reliable intelligence
assessment
Investigates intellectual
disability, high skills,
rehabilitation
IQ Scales – 4 subtests
Vocabulary/Similarities (QIV)
QI Verbal
Cubes/Matrix Reasoning
(QIE) QI execution
WASI – Wechsler shorted out
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intelligence
 WASI-TEA

130

110

90

WASI 70

TEA 50

30

10

QIV QIE QIT-4

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Part 2F 90 67 75
Part3M 98 94 95

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• Subescalas:
• A. Núcleo de condutas comuns
a ambos os sexos: intimidação,
disimulação, aproveitamento de
fraquezas dos outros para tirar
vantagens, condutas
antissociais.
• B. Núcleo de condutas mais
comuns ao sexo feminino:
agressão verbal, manipulação,
falsidade para prejudicar ou
tirar proveito, comportamento
intrigante, controlador e
vingativo
• C. Núcleo de condutas mais
comuns masculinas: condutas
ilegais, intimidação física, irritar,
castigar e ser bagunceiro.
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Tendência Subescala A Subescala B Subescala C

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 Two of the affected
neurotransmitters are
serotonin (affecting
emotion and
behavior) and
glutamate (which
plays a role in the
activity of neurons).
The brain of a child with autism has an •
abnormal corpus callosum, amygdala and
cerebellum.
 When exposed to
annoying noises or
images, children with
autism show
hypersensitivity in
regions of the brain that
process sensory
information and
emotions, according to a
study published in
November in the Journal
Sound Overload: The regions of the brain that of the American
process emotion react more to white noise in Academy of Child and
children with autism (right) than in controls (left). Adolescent Psychiatry
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Anxiety
disorders
 IFP-Transtornos de Ansiedade
100

90

80

IFP-II 70

Anxiety
60

50

disorders 40

30

20

10

0
s tr Af f l s ib s d rs
As In De Afi in
De Ex re Or ud to
n ET AN OP
m
Ag Pe M Au AF G N/
Do OR CO

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Abnormalities in the amygdala
volume and increased cortical
activity are evidences that explain
part of the easy activation and
the hypervigilance observed in
the TAG.
The GABA receptor cerebral
complex may be different in these
individuals, which also present
decreased density of
benzodiazepines receptors in
peripheral blood cells. At least
two critical receptors, especially
serotonin, corticotrophin release
factor receptor and some
subtypes of GABA receptors seem
to be responsible for some of the
circuits of fear.
•
 "People who have
difficulty tolerating an
uncertain future had a
relatively wide striated
body," explains the
chief author of the
work Justin Kim, a PhD
at Dartmouth College.
https://
www.apa.org/pubs/
Article: "Intolerance of Uncertainty Predicts Increased Striatal journals/releases/
Volume," by M. Justin Kim, PhD, Jin Shin, James Taylor, emo-emo0000331.pdf
PhD, Alison Mattek, Samantha Chavez, and Paul Whalen,
PhD, Dartmouth College. Emotion, published May 15, 2017. •
Bipolar Affective
Disorder –

Borderine personality
disorder
IFP-II IFP- TAB - TPB

100

90

Bipolar 80

70

affective 60

disorder and
50

40

Borderline
30

20

personality 10

0
s tr Af f l in s ib s d rs ud n ET N OP
As In De Afi De Ex re Or Pe to A

disorder Do
m
Ag M A u AF RG N/
O CO

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Bipolar Affective
Disorder and
Borderline
personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder =
excessive amygdala reactivation, high
pre-frontal activation and diminished
serotoninergica ease of pre-frontal
control.
Affective instability due to excessive
limbic reactivity in the
gabaminergic/glutamine/cholinergic
circuits, resulting in increased
sensitivity or reactivity to emotional
environmental stimuli.
•
 IFP-II Narcissistic

100

90

Narcissistic 80

70

personality 60

disorder
50

40

30

20

10

0
s tr Af f l in s ib s d rs d n T N P
As In De Afi De Ex gre Or Pe Mu uto AFE GA /O
om A N
D A O R CO
 The team led by Stefan
Roepke, researcher at the
Department of Psychiatry
of the University of
Medicine Charité, in Berlin.
Identified neurofunctional
alterations related to
empathy in narcissistic
individuals.
Published in the Journal of
Psychiatric Research.
• Lack of empathy in
A lower volume of gray matter in these regions of
patients with narcissistic
the brain in the left anterior insular and in the right personality disorder
part of the brain and in the prefrontal cortex and the
frontal paralímbic network.