Borderline Personality Disorder - Diagnosis
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The role of mindfulness in borderline personality disorder features.

29 Sep 2009 This study investigated whether deficits in mindfulness (attention, awareness, and acceptance of the present moment) underlie variability in borderline personality disorder (BPD) features and related impairments in interpersonal functioning, ... Read more...

Clinical assessment of affective instability: comparing EMA indices, questionnaire reports, and retrospective recall.

30 Aug 2009 Traditional self-report measures of psychopathology may be influenced by a variety of recall biases. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) reduces these biases by assessing individuals' experiences as they occur in their natural environments. This ... Read more...

Evidence for a putative biomarker for substance dependence.

30 Aug 2009 Electrodermal response modulation (ERM) reflects the reduction in skin conductance response to an aversive stimulus that is temporally predictable relative to when it is unpredictable. Poor ERM is associated with substance dependence (SD). It was ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Borderline Personality Disorder - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The role of mindfulness in borderline personality disorder features. 29 Sep 2009
• Clinical assessment of affective instability: comparing EMA indices, questionnaire reports, and retrospective recall. 30 Aug 2009
• Evidence for a putative biomarker for substance dependence. 30 Aug 2009
• Personality subtypes of suicidal adults. 30 Aug 2009
• Psychometric analysis of the self-harm inventory using Rasch modelling. 17 Aug 2009
• Disentangling emotion processes in borderline personality disorder: physiological and self-reported assessment of biological vulnerability, baseline intensity, and reactivity to emotionally evocative stimuli. 30 Jul 2009
• Ten-year stability and latent structure of the DSM-IV schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. 30 Jul 2009
• Bipolar disorder and concurrent psychiatric and medical disorders. 30 Jul 2009
• [Eccentric life, early death. Borderline personality in the spotlight (interview by Dr. med. Brigitte Moreano)] 21 Jul 2009
• Borderline personality disorder: toward integration. 29 Jun 2009
• Childhood sexual abuse, PTSD, and borderline personality disorder. Understanding the connections. 29 Jun 2009
• [Borderline organizations of the personality] 29 Jun 2009
• [Borderline personality disorder, a pseudo structure?] 29 Jun 2009
• Interpersonal and emotional experiences of social interactions in borderline personality disorder. 29 Jun 2009
• Gender differences in axis I and axis II comorbidity in patients with borderline personality disorder. 10 Jun 2009
• Brokering authenticity: Borderline personality disorder and the ethics of care in an American eating disorder clinic. 30 May 2009
• Reliability and validity of the Borderline Evaluation of Severity Over Time (BEST): a self-rated scale to measure severity and change in persons with borderline personality disorder. 30 May 2009
• Adult attachment, personality traits, and borderline personality disorder features in young adults. 30 May 2009
• Borderline personality disorder: still a diagnosis of exclusion? 30 May 2009
• Diagnosing an American Psycho. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Borderline Personality Disorder'

Definition: A personality disorder marked by a pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts. (DSM-IV)

Descriptor UI: D001883

Alternative terms: Borderline Personality Disorder; Disorder, Borderline Personality; Borderline Personality Disorders; Disorders, Borderline Personality; Personality Disorders, Borderline; Personality Disorder, Borderline;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.675.100;

History Note: 90(81); was see under PERSONALITY DISORDERS 1981-89

Technical Notes: "borderline" is a psychiatric diag: follow text