Bordering on bipolar: The overlap between borderline personality and bipolarity

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 506-521

  Coulston, Carissa M ^a,b   Tanious, Michelle ^a,b   Mulder, Roger T ^c   Porter, Richard J ^c   Malhi, Gin S ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; bipolar spectrum; borderline personality disorder; childhood trauma; emotional dysregulation; impulsivity; neurobiological

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ATTENTION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; BIPOLAR II DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD NEGLECT; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DSM-IV; EMOTIONAL ABUSE; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; IMPULSIVENESS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LONG TERM MEMORY; MANIA; MEDIAL ORBITOFRONTAL COR; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); ORBITAL CORTEX; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REMISSION; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SUSTAINED ATTENTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VENTRAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84867665747     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004867412445528     Document Type: Review

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