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Accumulating electrophysiology evidence suggests that Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) patients, similar to many other psychiatric groups of patients, may be a heterogeneous group (Boutros et al. 2003).

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Boutros, N.N. (2013). Borderline Personality Disorder. In: Standard EEG: A Research Roadmap for Neuropsychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04444-6_10

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