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Thyroid hormones and adult interpersonal violence among women with borderline personality disorder

Thyroid hormones and adult interpersonal violence among women with borderline personality disorder

  Cave Sinai a,n, Tatja  Hirvikoski b, Anna-Lena  Nordström a, Peter Nordström a, Åsa Nilsonne a, Alexander Wilczek a, Marie Åsberg c, Jussi Jokinen a,d a Department of Clinical Neuroscience/Psychiatry, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden     b Department of Children’s and Women’s Health, Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at Karolinska Institutet (KIND), Gävlegatan 22B, 113  30  Stockholm, Sweden c Department of  Clinical  Sciences, Karolinska Institutet,  Danderyd Hospital,  Stockholm, Sweden d Department of  Clinical  Sciences/Psychiatry, Umeå University, Umeå, …

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Borderline personality disorder and violence in the UK population: categorical and dimensional trait assessment

Borderline personality disorder and violence in the UK population: categorical and dimensional trait assessment

González et al. BMC Psychiatry  (2016) 16:180 DOI 10.1186/s12888-016-0885-7 Rafael A. González1,2, Artemis Igoumenou3*, Constantinos Kallis3 and Jeremy W. Coid3 * Correspondence: a.igoumenou@qmul.ac.uk 3Violence Prevention Research Unit, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © 2016 The Author(s). Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided…

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Personality Disorders

Personality Disorders

Key Concepts and Terms:     Personality Style = deeply ingrained, pervasive pattern of inner experience and interpersonal behavior that is relatively stable from adolescence through adulthood = “who we are.”     Personality Traits = characteristics of behaving, interacting, and reacting that define our personality style.  E.g. vulnerability to criticism, entitlement, and difficulty with empathy. Personality Disorder = collection of personality traits that is markedly deviant from the individual’s culture and that leads to conflict or chaos in multiple life areas,…

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The prevalence of personality disorders in Portuguese male prison inmates: Implications for penitentiary treatment

The prevalence of personality disorders in Portuguese male prison inmates: Implications for penitentiary treatment

    Análise Psicológica (2015), 3 (XXXIII): 279-290                                                                                                                                                                                        doi: 10.14417/ap.975 Nélio Brazão* / Carolina da Motta* / Daniel Rijo* / José Pinto-Gouveia* * CINEICC – Centro de Investigação do Núcleo de Estudos e Intervenção Cognitivo-Comportamental, Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra Submissão: 05/11/2014                                                                                                  Aceitação: 28/04/2015   Prison inmates are known to be a population with a high prevalence of mental disorders. Most of these disorders are chronic and difficult to treat, particularly in what…

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Comorbidity-independent Risk for Suicidality Increases with Bulimia Nervosa but not with Anorexia Nervosa

Comorbidity-independent Risk for Suicidality Increases with Bulimia Nervosa but not with Anorexia Nervosa

    Lindsay P. Bodell, M.S., Thomas E. Joiner, Ph.D., and Pamela K. Keel, Ph.D. Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at J Psychiatr Res See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Abstract Background Eating disorders are serious psychiatric illnesses with high levels of suicidality and high comorbidity. However, no study has established the extent to which suicidality is uniquely associated with eating disorders rather…

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