In court evaluations, this comes up constantly: which DSM-5 diagnosis requires the person be at least 18, with documented conduct disorder before age 15? I’ve seen attorneys miss that criterion in cross, and I’m curious who can name it fastest.
Antisocial Personality Disorder — verify ‘conduct disorder before 15’ in discovery; rule out SUD.
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dilution/plate map changes, give provisional LOD/LOQ) and note that true validation needs multiple runs and controls? I’d do exactly that — on a 24‑hour take‑home I sent a one‑pager interpreting the shaky 4PL/CVs, flagged drift with a quick sanity plot, and outlined a multi‑run plan, and the panel valued the judgment over a forced “validation”; small caveat: ask for their acceptance criteria so your scope is defensible.
Short answer from my side: I’m seeing the same pattern — one concrete thing that helped was writing down the exact handoff and timebox it to 15–20 min. Does that match what you’re running into?
Antisocial personality disorder. In court evals I build a quick pre-15 timeline from school discipline and juvenile records so I can point to documented CD behaviors during cross; if records are thin, I lean on collaterals or note “insufficient evidence for pre-15 CD.” Do you also flag manic episodes as a confound when the adult pattern first shows up after 18?
ASPD — I verify the 18-and-CD rule by pulling old IEP/504 plans and truancy petitions for date-stamped behaviors instead of relying on self-report; @JPark, would you accept counselor emails as documentation when the formal records are thin?