Borderline Personality Disorder
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Psychotherapy of borderline personality disorder.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: Psychotherapy is considered the primary treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD). Currently, there are four comprehensive psychosocial treatments for BPD. Two of these treatments are considered psychodynamic in nature: ... Read more...

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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Borderline Personality Disorder'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Psychotherapy of borderline personality disorder. 30 Oct 2009
• Patients and text messaging: a boundary issue. 30 Oct 2009
• 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
• Reduced amygdala and hippocampus size in trauma-exposed women with borderline personality disorder and without posttraumatic stress disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Longing for reconciliation: a challenge for women with borderline personality disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Evidence for a putative biomarker for substance dependence. 30 Aug 2009
• A preliminary study of lamotrigine in the treatment of affective instability in borderline personality disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Personality subtypes of suicidal adults. 30 Aug 2009
• Psychometric analysis of the self-harm inventory using Rasch modelling. 17 Aug 2009
• Effectiveness of education programs in changing clinicians' attitudes toward treating borderline personality disorder. 30 Jul 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
• Stigma, negative attitudes and discrimination towards mental illness within the nursing profession: a review of the literature. 30 Jul 2009
• Immersion in the surface. 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
• Association analysis of serotonin receptor 1B (HTR1B) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene polymorphisms in Borderline personality disorder. 19 Jul 2009
• Impulsivity and borderline personality as risk factors for suicide attempts among opioid-dependent individuals. 16 Jul 2009
• Neuroligand binding endophenotypes in blood cells distinguish two subsets of borderline personality disorder patients. 6 Jul 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