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. 1993 May;18(3):121-9.

Neurobehavioral study of borderline personality disorder

R van Reekum  1 , C A Conway, D Gansler, R White, D L Bachman
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Neurobehavioral study of borderline personality disorder

R van Reekum et al. J Psychiatry Neurosci. 1993 May.

Abstract

The existence of an "organic" subgroup of borderline personality disorder (BPD) has been postulated. This report is of a case-controlled, chart-review study of BPD. The control sample consisted of patients with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses. The study found that 81% of the patients with BPD and 22% of the control patients had a history of brain injury, either developmental (44%), acquired (58%) or both. Furthermore, there was a positive correlation between the summed number of developmental and acquired brain injuries and the score on the retro-Diagnostic Interview for Borderline. A pilot neuropsychological study showed that seven of nine subjects with BPD had evidence of frontal system dysfunction. These results help to support the hypothesized existence of an organic BPD subgroup.

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