The relationship between borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 155-169

  Zimmerman, Mark ^a   Morgan, Theresa A ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Bipolar spectrum; Borderline personality disorder

Indexed keywords

MOOD STABILIZER;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; BIPOLAR II DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; CHECKLIST; CLINICIAN ADMINISTERED RATING SCALE; COMORBIDITY; COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CYCLOTHYMIA; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW SCHEDULE; DSM-III; DSM-III-R; DSM-IV; HAMILTON SCALE; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL PERSONALITY DISORDERS EXAMINATION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDERS EXAMINATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RESEARCH DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA; SCHEDULE FOR AFFECTIVE DISORDERS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW FOR DSM PERSONALITY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; BIPOLAR SPECTRUM; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84888059468     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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