Caretakers are often intimidated or alienated by patients with borderline personality disorder
(BPD), compounding the clinical challenges posed by the severe morbidity, high social costs …

The role of childhood trauma in the development of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in
young age has long been studied. The most accurate theoretical models are multifactorial …

Background According to several studies, the onset of the Borderline Personality Disorder
(BPD) depends on the combination between genetic and environmental factors (GxE), in …

Epidemiologic and genetic studies suggest common environmental and genetic risk factors
for a number of psychiatric disorders, including depression, bipolar disorder, and …

Personality disorders (PDs) exert a great toll on health resources, and this is especially true
for borderline personality disorder (BPD). As all PDs, BPD arises during adolescence or …

Stress-induced mental health disorders are affecting many people around the world.
However, effective drug therapy for curing psychiatric diseases does not occur sufficiently …

The first randomized clinical trial of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for women with
borderline personality disorder was published in 1991. Over the past 30 years, research on …

Objective Borderline personality disorder (BPD) occurs in 0.7% to 3.5% of the general
population. Patients with BPD experience excessive comorbidity of psychiatric and somatic …

Substance addiction may follow a chronic, relapsing course and critically undermine the
physical and psychological well‐being of the affected individual and the social units of which …

Cushing's syndrome (CS) results from chronic exposure to cortisol excess, produced by the
adrenal cortex. Hypercortisolism predisposes to psychiatric and neurocognitive disorders …