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Margaret McClure’s Research Recognized at Personality Disorders Conference
Nearly three quarters of people diagnosed with the condition are female, but recent research suggests that there might be more men with the condition than reported. Dr. McClure’s research further corroborates those studies. Margaret McClure’s Research Recognized at Personality Disorders Conference Margaret McClure, PhD and assistant professor of psychology, recently impressed colleagues and experts in the field of clinical psychology at the 2015 meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (NASSPD). Dr. McClure presented her research on gender bias in borderline personality disorder (BPD) and was recognized for “Best Poster presentation.” The criteria for the award were best overall design and most significant contribution to…
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Personality Disorders Largely Being Treated Inappropriately by Psychiatrists
The easiest choice is to focus on pharmacologic therapy for target symptoms rather than the personality disorder as a whole. Personality Disorders Largely Being Treated Inappropriately by Psychiatrists May 6, 2015 Psychiatrists are giving drugs to most people with emotionally unstable personality disorders outside of the best-practice clinical guidelines, according to a study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. And an accompanying editorial stated that the reason is because “therapy takes time.” The researchers performed a cross-sectional survey of self-selected psychiatric services, and found that of 2,600 patients with a diagnosis of personality disorder, more than two-thirds (68%) had a diagnosis of emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD). Nearly all of…
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New study shows harm of borderline personality disorder
Bipolar disorder is a widely researched, well-publicized, well-funded topic. By contrast, BPD is seldom discussed… New study shows harm of borderline personality disorder By G. Wayne Miller Journal Staff Writer Posted Apr. 24, 2015 at 3:51 PM PROVIDENCE – A research team headed by a Rhode Island Hospital psychiatrist reveals that persons who live with borderline personality disorder, or BPD, experience physical and mental difficulties that rival those associated with the more prevalent and better-known bipolar disorder. Dr. Mark Zimmerman’s study was published this week in the online edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry. BPD is a severe emotional disorder characterized by impulsive behaviors, anger, irritability, poor self image…
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Rejection sensitivity and symptom severity in patients with borderline personality disorder
Both acute and remitted BPD patients had higher scores on the Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire than did healthy controls. Rejection sensitivity and symptom severity in patients with borderline personality disorder: effects of childhood maltreatment and self-esteem Interpersonal dysfunction in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is characterized by an anxious preoccupation with real or imagined abandonment'(DSM-5). This symptom description bears a close resemblance to that of rejection sensitivity, a cognitive affective disposition that affects perceptions, emotions and behavior in the context of social rejection. The present study investigates the level of rejection sensitivity in acute and remitted BPD patients and its relation to BPD symptom severity, childhood maltreatment, and self-esteem. READ THE ARTICLE…
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Cold Inside and Out
Mood lability and interpersonal sensitivity traits appear to be related by a cyclothymic temperamental diathesis which, in turn, appears to underlie the complex pattern of anxiety, mood and impulsive disorders which atypical depressive, bipolar II and borderline patients display clinically. The role of cyclothymia in atypical depression: toward a data-based reconceptualization of the borderline–bipolar II connection Giulio Perugia, Cristina Tonib, Maria Chiara Traviersoa, Hagop S. Akiskalc Abstract Objective: Recent data, including our own, indicate significant overlap between atypical depression and bipolar II. Furthermore, the affective fluctuations of patients with these disorders are difficult to separate, on clinical grounds, from cyclothymic temperamental and borderline personality disorders. The present analyses are part…
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Pain Really Is All In Your Head And Emotion Controls Intensity
Positive emotions — like feeling calm and safe and connected to others — can minimize pain. But negative emotions tend to have the opposite effect. Pain Really Is All In Your Head And Emotion Controls Intensity FEBRUARY 18, 2015 4:03 PM ET JON HAMILTON When you whack yourself with a hammer, it feels like the pain is in your thumb. But really it’s in your brain. That’s because our perception of pain is shaped by brain circuits that are constantly filtering the information coming from our sensory nerves, says David Linden, a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University and author of the new book Touch: The Science of Hand,…