Borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder: What is the difference and why does it matter?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-7

  Paris, Joel ^a   Black, Donald W ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

bipolar disorders; Borderline personality disorder; differential diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM; MOOD STABILIZER; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

AUTOMUTILATION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOMANIA; IMPULSIVENESS; IRRITABILITY; MANIA; MENTAL INSTABILITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOMENOLOGY; POLYPHARMACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMANS;

EID: 84920711947     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000225     Document Type: Review

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