objective: the purposes of this study were to examine the relationships between personality traits, cognitive emotion regulation strategies and impulsive behaviors of borderline personality disorder, and to explore which personality traits and cognitive emotion regulation strategies can better predict and explain the impulsive behaviors in borderline personality disorder. methods: this study wa...

Patients with personality disorders are prescribed psychotropic medications with greater frequency than almost any other diagnostic group. Prescribing practices in these populations are often based on anecdotal evidence rather than rigorous data. Although evidence-based psychotherapy remains an integral part of treatment, Axis II psychopathology is increasingly conceptualized according to neuro...

BACKGROUND This report investigates the longitudinal association of changes in major depressive disorder (MDD) and borderline personality disorder. METHOD A DSM-IV-diagnosed sample of 161 patients with borderline personality disorder who have been followed with repeated measures at 6, 12, 24, and 36 months are investigated to see whether those with co-occurring MDD differ at baseline and in t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate childhood experiences (neglect and abuse), temperament and childhood and adolescent psychopathology as risk factors for avoidant and borderline personality disorders in depressed outpatients. METHOD One hundred and eighty depressed outpatients were evaluated for personality disorders. Risk factors of childhood abuse, parental care, temperament, conduct disorder symptoms,...

Introduction: The core of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a neuronal dysfunction in a frontolimbic network. The amygdala is a key region of the limbic system and plays an important role in impulsivity, affect regulation and emotional information processing, and thus are likely related to BPD symptoms [1]. In contrast to other brain regions the amygdala is an extremely difficult region ...

Personality traits are closely related to eating disorders (ED) and might be involved in their development and maintenance. Nevertheless little is known regarding the association between personality traits and disordered eating in subclinical populations. College students answered questionnaires assessing disordered eating behaviors (DEB) and the following personality disorder (PD) traits: schi...

comorbidity between borderline personality disorder and substance abuse disorder is very high. the present study examined the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy on negative emotion regulation strategies in women with borderline personality disorder and substance abuse. based on the willingness to participate in the research, structured clinical interview and the criteria for inclusio...

Abstract Background Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe psychiatric with multiple psychopathological domains; so studying the correlation of clinical or behavioral data underlying structural and functional neurological findings in BPD focus interest recent years. The aim our study was to compare presence soft signs (NSS) patients borderline their normal controls, correlate severit...

This work represents the first review paper to explore the relationship between perfectionistic personality and borderline personality organization. The developmental origins, identity diffusion, interpersonal difficulties, and defense mechanisms that are common to both borderline personality and the interpersonal components of perfectionism are explored, and existing research on perfectionism ...