Dissociative Disorders News

Remission and recurrence of borderline personality disorder symptoms were common, though acute symptoms, such as self-mutilation and help-seeking suicide attempts, were more likely to remit and less likely to recur than temperamental symptoms.

Recent findings indicated overall psychopathology was associated with both abnormal patterns of activation and failure to activate executive regions in youth with various psychiatric disorders.

Individuals with schizotypal personality disorder exhibited increased activation in brain regions related to reward and decision making when viewing biological motion stimuli, which may be related to their social behavior.

Recent findings showed dysfunctional dorsolateral prefrontal and limbic brain regions are a significant feature of borderline personality disorder, consistent with the concept that the disorder is an emotional dysregulation disorder.

Recent findings suggest that Lewy body dementia pathology and cerebrovascular disease are significant modifiers of psychosis in Alzheimer’s disease.

As the year comes to a close, Healio.com/Psychiatry revisited our most popular psychiatry coverage of 2015.

Recent findings indicate cost-effectiveness of schema therapy, but not clarification-oriented psychotherapy, for personality disorders.

Researchers identified biomarkers of suicidal ideation across multiple psychiatric disorders and developed an application to help clinicians accurately screen for suicide risk.

Inferential confusion and dissociation were predictors of symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder, according to study findings in the Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Psychological disorders such as depression and anxiety appeared associated with higher 30-day hospital readmission rates in Medicare beneficiaries with COPD, according to study results.