Borderline Personality Disorder - Drug therapy
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

A preliminary study of lamotrigine in the treatment of affective instability in borderline personality disorder.

30 Aug 2009 The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of lamotrigine in reducing affective instability in borderline personality disorder (BPD). We conducted a 12-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 28 patients who met Revised ... Read more...

Effectiveness of education programs in changing clinicians' attitudes toward treating borderline personality disorder.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: This exploratory study was conducted in Australia and New Zealand and examined the impact of two types of education programs (cognitive-behavioral and psychoanalytic) on clinicians' attitude toward deliberate self-harm behaviors in ... Read more...

[Mood stabilizer in the psychopharmacotherapy of borderline personality disorder]

17 May 2009 Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) constitutes a profound instability with dysfunction in three psychopathological dimensions as cognitive-perceptual symptoms, affective dysregulation and behavioral impulsivity. Psychopharmacotherapy has a ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Borderline Personality Disorder - Drug therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A preliminary study of lamotrigine in the treatment of affective instability in borderline personality disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Effectiveness of education programs in changing clinicians' attitudes toward treating borderline personality disorder. 30 Jul 2009
• [Mood stabilizer in the psychopharmacotherapy of borderline personality disorder] 17 May 2009
• Borderline personality disorder. 29 Apr 2009
• [Abuse of quetiapine. Two addicted patients with borderline personality disorder] 2 Apr 2009
• Clonidine improves hyperarousal in borderline personality disorder with or without comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. 30 Mar 2009
• Meta-analyses of mood stabilizers, antidepressants and antipsychotics in the treatment of borderline personality disorder: effectiveness for depression and anger symptoms. 30 Mar 2009
• [Empirical evidence for the use of anticonvulsants in personality disorders] 10 Mar 2009
• [Infection or allergic reaction to carbamazepine? Diagnostic complications] 27 Feb 2009
• Minds on the edge. 17 Jan 2009
• Olanzapine for the treatment of borderline personality disorder: variable dose 12-week randomised double-blind placebo-controlled study. 29 Nov 2008
• Possible varenicline-induced paranoia and irritability in a patient with major depressive disorder, borderline personality disorder, and methamphetamine abuse in remission. 29 Nov 2008
• Efficacy and tolerability of aripiprazole augmentation in sertraline-resistant patients with borderline personality disorder. 7 Oct 2008
• Quetiapine in patients with borderline personality disorder: an open-label trial. 29 Sep 2008
• Mentalization: ontogeny, assessment, and application in the treatment of borderline personality disorder. 30 Jul 2008
• Methylphenidate in the treatment of female adolescents with cooccurrence of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and borderline personality disorder: a preliminary open-label trial. 29 Jun 2008
• Atypical depression as a premonitory symptom of migraine managed by an oral contraceptive. 30 May 2008
• Topiramate treatment of women with borderline personality disorder, part II: an open 18-month follow-up. 30 May 2008
• Risperidone treatment of borderline personality disorder assessed by a borderline personality disorder-specific outcome measure: a pilot study. 30 May 2008
• Olanzapine plus dialectical behavior therapy for women with high irritability who meet criteria for borderline personality disorder: a double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study. 30 May 2008

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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