Prenatal adversity: A risk factor in borderline personality disorder?

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1279-1291

  Schwarze, C E ^a,b   Mobascher, A ^a   Pallasch, B ^a   Hoppe, G ^a   Kurz, M ^a   Hellhammer, D H ^b   Lieb, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borderline personality disorder; etiology; prenatal adversity; prenatal maternal stress; prenatal tobacco exposure.

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877774739     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291712002140     Document Type: Article

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