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Interactions Of Borderline Personality Disorder And Mood Disorders Over Ten Years, John G. Gunderson, Robert L. Stout, M. Tracie Shea, Carlos M. Grilo, John C. Markowitz, Leslie C. Morey, Charles A. Sanislow, Shirley Yen, Mary C. Zanarini, Alex S. Keuroghlian, Thomas H. Mcglashan, Andrew E. Skodol
Interactions Of Borderline Personality Disorder And Mood Disorders Over Ten Years, John G. Gunderson, Robert L. Stout, M. Tracie Shea, Carlos M. Grilo, John C. Markowitz, Leslie C. Morey, Charles A. Sanislow, Shirley Yen, Mary C. Zanarini, Alex S. Keuroghlian, Thomas H. Mcglashan, Andrew E. Skodol
Charles A. Sanislow, Ph.D.
Objective: To examine the relationship of borderline personality disorder (BPD) to mood disorders by using data from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study on the reciprocal interactions of BPD with both depressive and bipolar disorders over the course of 10 years.
Method: The study included 223 BPD patients with DSM-IV–defined co-occurring major depressive disorder (MDD) (n = 161), bipolar I disorder (n = 34), and bipolar II disorder (n = 28) who were reliably and prospectively assessed over a period of 10 years between 1997 and 2009. Proportional hazards regression analyses were used to assess the effects of improvement or …