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High personality disorder comorbidity rates identified in anxiety
A meta-analysis covering 30 years of research has identified high rates of comorbid personality disorders across a number of anxiety disorder (AD) subtypes. High personality disorder comorbidity rates identified in anxiety By Ingrid Grasmo, medwireNews Reporter A meta-analysis covering 30 years of research has identified high rates of comorbid personality disorders across a number of anxiety disorder (AD) subtypes. Of interest, the research findings published in the Journal of Affective Disorders found that a substantial proportion of patients with AD also presented with an avoidant personality disorder. Oddgeir Friborg (University of Tromsø, Norway) and co-authors say this finding should be addressed in the routine clinical assessment and treatment of AD…
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One Way to Identify Borderline Personality Disorder Is by Testing “Mentalization” Skills
Dr. Sharp and her colleagues worked with 111 teenagers ages 11 to 17 years old, who were being treated in a residential psychiatric facility and tested them for the way they “mentalize.” Mentalize is a technical term that means to act like an armchair psychiatrist in order to understand why others behave the way they do and to predict their future behaviors. One Way to Identify Borderline Personality Disorder Is by Testing “Mentalization” Skills (link) Borderline personality disorder probably shows up before adulthood, and now a new study has found a way to detect it in teenagers. The conventional thinking is to diagnose personality disorders only in adults over age…
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Teaching Mindfulness to Children
Mindfulness, which features focused awareness training, is increasing in popularity among mental health professionals. Mindfulness training emphasizes focused attention to internal and external experiences in the present moment of time, without judgment. While mindfulness interventions have been used in treatments for stress, chronic pain, anxiety, depression, borderline personality disorder, eating disorders, and addiction, researchers suggest that this type of training also can be beneficial in everyday life. Most research and writing on mindfulness training has been about adults. In this paper, the authors argue for adapting mindfulness techniques for work with children. The authors propose that training in mindfulness has the potential to enhance children’s attention and focus, and improve memory,…
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Brain Scans Clarify Borderline Personality Disorder
Using real-time brain imaging, a team of researchers have discovered that patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are physically unable to regulate emotion. Brain Scans Clarify Borderline Personality Disorder (link) By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on September 4, 2009 Using real-time brain imaging, a team of researchers have discovered that patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are physically unable to regulate emotion. The findings, by Harold W. Koenigsberg, MD, professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine suggest individuals with BPD are unable activate neurological networks that would help to control feelings. The research will be published in the journal Biological…
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New approach could more effectively diagnose personality disorders
Personality disorders could be more effectively diagnosed by identifying and targeting the disrupted neurobiological systems where the disorders originate, report Cornell researchers. New approach could more effectively diagnose personality disorders (link) February 20th, 2012 in Psychology & Psychiatry (Medical Xpress) — Personality disorders could be more effectively diagnosed by identifying and targeting the disrupted neurobiological systems where the disorders originate, report Cornell researchers. The way that these mental illnesses are now classified — based on particular patterns of thought and behavior — is misguided and has little hard evidence to support it, reports Cornell neuroscientist Richard Depue and his colleague in a special issue of the Journal of International Review…
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From neurology to psychiatry
Your emotional state has powerful control over your body — and Kim Bullock, MD, knows just how strong that hold can be. The Stanford psychiatrist works with patients who experience seizures that aren’t generated from the electrical brain storms of epilepsy, but instead are driven by their own psychological turmoil. From neurology to psychiatry: Bullock probes mysterious seizures January 9th, 2012 in Psychology & Psychiatry Your emotional state has powerful control over your body — and Kim Bullock, MD, knows just how strong that hold can be. The Stanford psychiatrist works with patients who experience seizures that aren’t generated from the electrical brain storms of epilepsy, but instead are driven…