Personality Disorders News

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.

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.

Study findings in JAMA Psychiatry indicate state-dependent deficits in cortical processing of bodily signal patterns among individuals with borderline personality disorder and suggest that techniques to improve bodily awareness be integrated into psychotherapeutic interventions.

SAN DIEGO — In a presentation at U.S. Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress, Victor Hong, MD, and Kenneth Silk, MD, of the University of Michigan, discussed how psychiatrists could potentially avoid polypharmacy when treating patients with borderline personality disorder.

Recent data support the heterogeneity of borderline personality disorder and suggest that reduced brain activity may affect empathic processing among individuals with the disorder.

The most common diagnoses among Belgian individuals who requested euthanasia for psychological suffering associated with psychiatric disorders were depression and personality disorder, according to study findings in BMJ Open.

TORONTO — The 168th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association will feature innovative clinical research and practice-related sessions on topics including suicide risk factors in the ED, exposure to terrorism and substance abuse among college students.

Psychosis progression among patients at ultra-high clinical risk is greatest during the first months after clinical presentation, according to study findings in JAMA Psychiatry.