title: Pituitary volumes of the patients with borderline personality disorder are not changed.
abstract: Although it has important relationships with psychiatric symptoms via the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, there have been limited investigations of pituitary neuroimaging in psychiatric disorder. Moreover, there have been no studies of borderline personality disorder. In the present investigation, we examined pituitary gland volumes in patients with borderline personality disorder. Seventeen right-handed female patients with borderline personality disorder, selected among the patients who had presented to Firat University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry outpatient and inpatient clinics, and the same number of healthy control subjects were included in the present investigation. Pituitary gland volumes were manually detected. The results demonstrated that the mean volumes of the gland of the patients with borderline personality disorder were not significantly different than those of healthy control subjects (mean volume of 0.79 cm3 in the patient group, with a value of SD±0.11 and 0.81 cm3 in the healthy control group, with a value of SD±0.23; t=-0.21; p>0.05).
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey matmaca_p@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Murad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Atmaca
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey.
authors.forename: Tevfik
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Karakoc
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey.
authors.forename: Osman
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Mermi
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey.
authors.forename: Faruk
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kilic
authors.affiliation: Elazig Mental Health Hospital, Elazig, Turkey.
authors.forename: M Gurkan
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Gurok
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Neuroradiology Section, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey.
authors.forename: Hanefi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yildirim
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: Borderline personality disorder; magnetic resonance imaging; pituitary gland volume