BACKGROUND The status and differentiation of comorbid borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder is worthy of clarification. AIMS To determine whether comorbid borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder are interdependent or independent conditions. METHOD We interviewed patients diagnosed with either a borderline personality disorder and/or a bipolar condition. RESULTS...

OBJECTIVE Orbitofrontal cortex lesions produce disinhibited or socially inappropriate behavior and emotional irregularities. Characteristics of borderline personality disorder include impulsivity and affective instability. The authors investigated whether aspects of borderline personality disorder, in particular impulsivity, are associated with orbitofrontal cortex dysfunction. METHOD Measure...

Bipolar affective disorder and borderline personality disorder have the incidence of early sexual abuse but not early trauma in general, the loss. Title: Lost in fragmentation. Schema modes, childhood trauma, and anger in borderline and antisocial personality disorder. Author(s): Lobbestael, J. Type. Learn all about borderline personality disorder the serious emotional condition. American Journ...

OBJECTIVE This study examines Axis I comorbidity in patients with borderline personality disorder as compared with patients with other personality disorders and to patients without personality disorders. METHODS A total of 235 clinical histories were evaluated. These were divided into three groups: 92 pertaining to patients with borderline personality disorder, 69 to ones having other persona...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of specific personality disorder comorbidity on the course of major depressive disorder in a nationally representative sample. METHOD Data were drawn from 1,996 participants in a national survey. Participants who met criteria for major depressive disorder at baseline in face-to-face interviews (in 2001-2002) were reinterviewed 3 y...

OBJECTIVE Narcissistic personality disorder has received relatively little empirical attention. This study was designed to provide an empirically valid and clinically rich portrait of narcissistic personality disorder and to identify subtypes of the disorder. METHOD A random national sample of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists (N=1,201) described a randomly selected current patient wit...

The aim of the study is to examine the association linking parenting and personality disorder controlling for parental personality disorder, and whether this association is moderated by parental PD. Data were from community-dwelling high school students aged 18 and above and their parents living in Beijing, China. A total of 181 cases and 2,605 controls were included in this study. Personality ...

OBJECTIVE This overview focuses on neurobiological abnormalities found in subjects with schizotypal personality disorder, the prototype of the schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and chronic schizophrenia in the context of common vulnerabilities shared by schizotypal personality disorder and schizophrenia, as well as the factors that protect against the severe cognitive/social deficits and frank ...