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New Drugs in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

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From both a clinical and a neurobiological point of view, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) as defined by DSM-IV (A.P.A., 1994) must be considered an heterogeneous condition. Clinical studies on BPD patients showed that BPD diagnosis is rarely the only Axis II diagnosis present in a personality disordered patient, and broadly overlaps with other diagnoses pertaining to the three DSM category clusters (e.g. Nurnberg et al., 1991). Moreover, comorbidity with Axis I pathologies is often present: as reported in DSM-IV itself, heterogenous Axis I pathologies (such as mood disorders, substance-related disorders, eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, and attention-deficit disorder) are commonly diagnosed in patients affected by BPD.

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Benedetti, F., Colombo, C., Sforzini, L., Maffei, C., Smeraldi, E. (1999). New Drugs in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. In: Derksen, J., Maffei, C., Groen, H. (eds) Treatment of Personality Disorders. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6876-3_16

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