Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline personality disorder diagnosis and related criteria of self-injurious behaviors and chronic emptiness significantly increased suicide attempt risk, according to results of a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open.

Certain cognitive deficits in childhood were distinctively linked to different psychopathological symptoms among young people, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

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.

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

Sleep problems during early childhood may be associated with the onset of psychosis and borderline personality disorder, or BPD, in adolescence, according to results of a 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.

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.