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Bipolar disorder ‘distinct’ from borderline personality disorder
The MDD-BPD patients also had more personality disorders than the bipolar patients (56.7 vs 38.5%) and had more severe depressive symptoms, including higher scores for anger, anxiety, paranoid ideation, and somatization. MDD-BPD patients had poorer social functioning than patients with bipolar II depression, and had made more suicide attempts. Bipolar disorder ‘distinct’ from borderline personality disorder (link) By Eleanor McDermid, Senior medwireNews Reporter 08 October 2013 J Clin Psychiatry 2013; 74: 880–886 medwireNews: Researchers say that there are clear clinical differences between depressed patients with bipolar II disorder and those with borderline personality disorder, which supports the two being treated as distinct conditions. The 62 bipolar II disorder patients in…
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How to Tell the Difference Between Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder have some symptoms in common, but are two very different diseases. It’s important to understand the difference between borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder, in order to help yourself or someone you love get the right treatment. Each of these two mental disorders is often misdiagnosed as the other, because the difference between borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder, in terms of symptoms, can be so subtle. Bipolar disorder causes its victims to cycle through mania, a mental state characterized by feelings of invulnerability, euphoria, and impulsivity, often followed by periods of severe depression marked by anxiety, aggression, irritability, suicide attempts or self-harming episodes.…
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Research effort reveals differences in brain activity for bipolar and borderline
The scans revealed that those with BP were able to function quite normally under normal conditions, but when taxed, their brains were found to have to work harder than normal to keep up. Many people have started using brain supplements from https://neurohacks.co/best-nootropic-brain-supplements/ to help them focus more. Those with BPD on the other hand, showed heightened activity in the amygdala, a part of the brain normally associated with fear response. Research effort reveals differences in brain activity for two types of mental illness April 4, 2013 by Bob Yirka (Medical Xpress)—Researchers in Australia have uncovered what they describe as differences in brain behavior for people diagnosed with either bipolar disorder…
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Using the mood disorder questionnaire and bipolar spectrum diagnostic scale to detect bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder among eating disorder patients
Screening scales for bipolar disorder including the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) and Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale (BSDS) have been plagued by high false positive rates confounded by presence of borderline personality disorder. This study examined the accuracy of these scales for detecting bipolar disorder among patients referred for eating disorders and explored the possibility of simultaneous assessment of co-morbid borderline personality disorder. Methods: Participants were 78 consecutive female patients who were referred for evaluation of an eating disorder. All participants completed the mood and eating disorder sections of the SCID-I/P and the borderline personality disorder section of the SCID-II, in addition to the MDQ and BSDS. Predictive validity of the…
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Study finds Borderline personality, bipolar disorders have similar unemployment rates
Unemployment poses a significant burden on the public no matter what the cause. But for those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric illness, chronic unemployment is often coupled with significant health care costs. A Rhode Island Hospital study compared unemployment rates among those with various psychiatric disorders, and found that borderline personality disorder is associated with as much unemployment as bipolar disorder. Researcher Mark Zimmerman, M.D., the director of outpatient psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital, and his colleagues studied unemployment and disability rates in patients with bipolar disorder and depression with borderline personality disorder to determine the level of disability associated with each illness. The study is published in…
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Widely Used Bipolar Screening Test Widely Wrong
A widely-used screening technique (the Mood Disorder Questionnaire) mistook borderline personality disorder for bipolar disorder. http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/03/25/is.it.really.bipolar.disorder Is it really bipolar disorder? Published: Thursday, March 25, 2010 – 13:00 in Health & Medicine A study from Rhode Island Hospital has shown that a widely-used screening tool for bipolar disorder may incorrectly indicate borderline personality disorder rather than bipolar disorder. In the article that appears online ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, the researchers question the effectiveness of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ). The MDQ is the most widely-used and studied screening tool for bipolar disorder. It is a brief questionnaire that assesses whether a patient displays some of…