Borderline personality subcategories.
A careful study of 106 patients, diagnosed as borderline using the criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd Edition, is in progress at a private psychiatric facility. Three distinct subcategories of the borderline personality disorder have been identified: history of no organicity, history of trauma, encephalitis, or epilepsy, and history of attentional deficit disorder/learning disabilities. A discriminant function analysis approach clearly distinguishes the three borderline subcategories from one another and from a schizophrenic control group. Borderline patients also show significant sex differences. The borderline personality disorder is viewed as either on a continuum with affective disorders and atypical psychoses, or with organic brain dysfunction including the episodic dyscontrol syndrome and/or adult minimal brain dysfunction. Future research should be directed toward further classifying homogeneous subgroups of borderline patients in order to provide more specific and effective treatment.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000235:genetics; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004660:Encephalitis / Q000150:complications; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000145:classification*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012737:Sex Factors