Electrocardiogram and intra-arterial blood pressure were recorded in 96 men (aged 35 to 45 years) by the Oxford method over a 30-hour period. The study involved 33 normotensive, 29 borderline hypertensive, and 34 mildly hypertensive individuals, as assessed by the cuff method. Five-minute periods during sleep and with subjects in supine, sitting, and standing positions were extracted from the r...

which the nodes are tests. The leaves, instead of indicating This paper presents a "conceptual regression method". classes, indicate i~tervals of values or single values with Given a set of examples whose representations are symbolic confide~ce coefficIents. The oldest (1960? re'i!jTession tree and which are attached to a real value, the method learns the meth~ IS A.I.D [22] (~ descendant of Wh...

BACKGROUND Co-occurrence of bulimia nervosa and borderline personality disorder has been attributed to shared factors, including childhood abuse and disturbances in central serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 5-HT) mechanisms. To explore this notion, we conducted a controlled assessment of childhood abuse and 5-HT function in bulimics with and without borderline personality disorder. METHOD Forty...

OBJECTIVE Most studies of borderline personality disorder have drawn patients from among hospital inpatients or outpatients. The aims of this study were to examine the nature of borderline personality disorder patients in everyday clinical practice and to use data from a sample of borderline personality disorder patients seen in the community to refine the borderline construct. METHOD A rando...

OBJECTIVE Previous research suggests that the comorbidity of major depression with a personality disorder, especially borderline personality disorder, is associated with a poorer response to ECT. The authors compared the acute outcome of ECT in depressed patients with borderline personality disorder, with personality disorders other than borderline personality disorder, and with no personality ...

BACKGROUND One of the methods used for standard setting is the borderline regression method (BRM). This study aims to assess the reliability of BRM when the pass-fail standard in an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) was calculated by averaging the BRM standards obtained for each station separately. MATERIALS AND METHODS In nine stations of the OSCE with direct observation the e...

The development of borderline personality disorder (BPD) has been associated with parenting styles and parental psychopathology. Only a few studies have examined current parental rearing styles and parental psychopathology in relationship to BPD symptoms in adolescents. Moreover, parenting stress has not been examined in this group. The current study examined 101 adolescents (14-19 years old) w...