Personality Disorders
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Borderline patients have longer time to depression remission
Severity of BPD symptoms could be an indicator of more severe depression.
Hard Talk
The anecdote as antidote: Psychiatric paradigms in Disney films
Movies, by design, are particularly adept at encapsulating the narrative of someone’s life in a way that psychiatry can learn from.
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Higher rates of PTSD, BPD in transgender vs. cisgender psych patients
“It is important to realize that transgender or gender-diverse identity is not synonymous with [borderline personality disorder], as some have...
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Borderline personality disorder raises relapse risk for MDD patients after ECT
Better BPD screening may improve outcomes for depressed patients undergoing electroconvulsive therapy.
From the Editor
From neuroplasticity to psychoplasticity: Psilocybin may reverse personality disorders and political fanaticism
One of psychiatry’s long-standing dogmas is that personality disorders are enduring, unchangeable, and not amenable to treatment with potent...
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Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale succeeds as transdiagnostic measure
The BPRS showed solid correlation with the mini-ICF-APP for disorders in six different categories.
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New panic disorder model flags risk for recurrence, persistence
The co-occurrence of risk factors for panic disorder “suggests the need to combine them into a broad multivariable model.”
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Diagnostic criterion may hide borderline personality disorder
“Clinicians need to screen for borderline personality disorder in patients with other suggestive symptoms, even if those patients don’t self-harm...
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Mixed results for intensive home care for psychiatric crises
“Intensive home treatment is not a substitute for inpatient care but a different treatment opportunity for psychiatric patients in crisis,” said...
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Understanding the neuroscience of narcissism
This study integrates both grandiose and vulnerable narcissism into a common framework with cognitive components connected to these traits.
Shrink Rap News
When suffering defies diagnosis
Some people are uncomfortable in ways that our lexicon does not capture, and sometimes medication helps with this discomfort.