Personality Disorders News

Acute course electroconvulsive therapy benefited patients with depression with or without comorbid borderline personality disorder, according to results of a retrospective cohort study published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Individuals born to parents in the lowest income quintile had higher risk for developing mental health conditions, including substance use and personality disorders, according to study results published in BMC Medicine.

Specific features of borderline personality disorder may increase risk for suicide attempts, according to study results published in JAMA Psychiatry.

An electronic health record-based suicide risk prediction modeling approach detected risk for suicidal behavior among patients across independent health care systems, according to results of a prognostic study published in JAMA Network Open.

Individuals who exhibit life-course-persistent antisocial behavior have characteristic differences in brain structure, according to results of a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

Patients with psychiatric disorders are significantly more likely to be victimized by or perpetrators of violence than those without psychiatric disorders, according to findings of a nationwide cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

A psychoeducational group intervention proved effective for patients with borderline personality disorder, or BPD, according to results of a randomized controlled study conducted in Italy and published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Individuals with mental disorders have significantly higher mortality rates than the general population, according to results of a Danish register-based cohort study published in The Lancet.

Middle-aged adults with borderline personality disorder, or BPD, may be more likely to have a heart attack, according to results published in Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.

Longitudinal study data indicated that children exposed to maternal stress throughout gestation were three times more likely to develop a personality disorder, even after adjusting for other psychiatric disorders