[Borderline personality disorder associated with psychotic symptoms and parietal lobe abnormalities].
OBJECTIVE
We explore a case of a forensic patient with severe personality disorder, borderline type, and additional psychotic symptoms. Furthermore, she showed parietal lobe abnormalities.


METHODS
We describe a case report and the relevant theoretical deliberations.


CONCLUSIONS
Attempts to categorize patients with severe borderline personality disorder and psychotic symptoms have been made since the beginning of the 20th century. We show that in our patient neuroimaging such as SPECT scan can prove parietal lobe abnormalities. We describe possible links between these findings and her symptoms.
Cherrybank Resource Centre Cheshire, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, UK. lepping@onetel.net.uk
Peter
P
Lepping
Mark
M
Swinton
D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000523:psychology; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003702:Delusions / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000523:psychology; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011859:Radiography; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000145:classification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014754:Violence / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*