objective : few study have examined the relationship between childhood maltreatment and personality disorder in later life especially in eastern mediterranean countries .the study was conducted to explore the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and personality disorder during later life in an iranian sample . a cross - sectional study was conducted in kerman , a city located in e...

BACKGROUND Patients with major depression and borderline personality disorder are characterised by a distorted perception of other people's intentions. Deficits in mental state decoding are thought to be the underlying cause of this clinical feature. AIMS To examine, using meta-analysis, whether mental state decoding abilities in patients with major depression and borderline personality disor...

BACKGROUND The status and differentiation of comorbid borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder is worthy of clarification. AIMS To determine whether comorbid borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder are interdependent or independent conditions. METHOD We interviewed patients diagnosed with either a borderline personality disorder and/or a bipolar condition. RESULTS...

OBJECTIVE To examine risk factors associated with borderline pathology in latency-age children. METHOD The subjects were 98 children assessed for day treatment. Borderline subjects were identified in a chart review using the Child Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines, which divided the sample into borderline (n = 41) and nonborderline (n = 57) groups. Functional levels were assessed by Childr...

The halothane muscle/gas partition coefficients at 37 degrees C for 26 samples of eight different muscles from four horses were found to depend significantly on the fat content of the muscle sample with a regression coefficient of 1.913 (SEM 0.109) per per cent ether-extractable fat content. The blood/gas partition coefficients in 24 horses showed a significant dependence on plasma triglyceride...

Fifty cases of 1epromatous leprosy we re inc Juded in a double blind trial to assess the therapeutic value of D A D D S in lepromatous lepros y using DDS as the control drug. During the period of 1 9 months the study has been in progress, 2 8 cases were lost to the study owing to patients going away on voluntar y d ischarge , etc. In the 2 2 cases who continued to participa t e in the study ove...

Deepest regression (DR) is a method for linear regression introduced by Rousseeuw and Hubert [20]. The DR method is defined as the fit with largest regression depth relative to the data. In this paper we show that DR is a robust method, with breakdown value that converges almost surely to 1/3 in any dimension. We construct an approximate algorithm for fast computation of DR in more than two dim...

BACKGROUND We hypothesize that the population with borderline personality shows different autonomic response to methadone compared to individuals with other personalities. This study applies heart rate variability (HRV) measurements and the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) to examine this hypothesis. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Forty-four male patients with heroin dependence ...