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Filter by:This study evaluates the safety and tolerability of brexpiprazole in the treatment of adults with borderline personality disorder.
The first disorder-specific parenting training program for mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder (M-BPD) is evaluated in a randomized controlled trial. The training program is expected to have positive effects on parenting behavior, decrease the risk of maltreatment of the child, and improve emotion regulation in mothers at post treatment and at 6-month follow-up compared to a control group (treatment as usual; TAU). Additionally, disorder-specific aspects of dysfunctional parenting behavior as well as BPD-specific aspects of child maltreatment are compared to a clinical control group (mothers with anxiety and/or depression, M-AD/D) and a healthy control group (M-CON). To assess the differential development of parenting, the risk of maltreatment and emotion dysregulation in untreated M-BPD are compared to M-CON. The investigators expect the difference to increase over time, indicating a worsening in BPD parenting.
The aim of this study is to validate an intervention for relatives of people with borderline personality disorder in Spanish population in a randomized control trial.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a pervasive mental disorder characterized by emotional instability, self-destructive behavior, identity problems and unstable relationships. Persons with this disorder usually experience significant distress in terms of depression, anxieties, suicidal behavior, and difficulties in close relationships as well as with work- and social functioning. Recent research has found the prognosis of BPD to be better than previously assumed, and many patients improve from treatment. Mentalization based therapy (MBT) is a specialized evidenced based therapy for patients with BPD. Like for other specialized treatments for this disorder, the outcome of therapy is typically variable, some patients respond well to treatment, whereas others respond less. It is therefore important to understand how treatment works in order to improve therapies and tailor treatment to individual patients. Mentalizing is the ability to understand ourselves and others in terms of mental states, like intentions, feelings, desires, attitudes, and so on, or briefly; the ability to mind own and other's minds. Impaired mentalizing capacity is an assumed core aspect of BPD, underlying many of the symptoms of this disorder. MBT focuses on the patients mentalizing difficulties and is typically offered as a long-term combined treatment program comprising individual and group therapy, as well as psychoeducation. Several studies have documented positive effects of MBT in terms of reduced suicidal behavior, symptoms, interpersonal problems, medication, and health service use. It is assumed that such clinical improvement is made possible by helping the patients to develop their mentalizing abilities. Yet, no study has investigated whether patients' mentalizing capacity changes during MBT, or to what degree outcome of MBT is mediated by improved mentalizing. Mentalizing is, however, a complex phenomenon and difficult to measure. Research in this area has been hampered by a lack of suitable methods. Mentalizing is usually operationalized as Reflective Functioning (RF) assessed by the RF Scale. The gold standard is to apply the RF Scale on the Adult Attachment Interview. However, this is a time consuming and costly method, and there is a need for testing other methods as well. The overall aim of the project is to study treatment processes in MBT for patients with BPD. It focuses on patients' mentalizing difficulties before, during and at the end of therapy. Mentalizing is assessed using different methods. Our main research questions are: 1. To what degree does patients' level of RF change during MBT? 2. Is there a relationship between RF and outcome of MBT? 3. What is the relationship between RF and therapy processes in MBT? 4. Is it possible to identify in-session processes that promote mentalizing? 5. What is the clinical utility of various methods of RF assessment?
This neuroimaging study is a clinical trial investigating the effectiveness of intermittent theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation (iTBS-TMS) to the inferior parietal lobule (IPL) in reducing suicide risk in patients with major depressive episode (MDE) or borderline personality disorder (BPD).
There are currently no pharmacological treatments approved to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD). This trial will be conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of brexpiprazole for the treatment of participants diagnosed with BPD to provide a pharmacological treatment for BPD.
The link between epigenetic changes as an effect of psychotherapy has been investigated recently. Genes investigated in these studies were brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), NR3C1, FKBP51, MAOA and GLUT1. Change in methylation of these genes could be a biomolecular mechanism of psychotherapy induced changes. This study project aims at providing evidence for a biological mechanism of personality disorder interventions in adolescence by investigating the link between epigenetic changes as an effect of psychotherapy. It investigates the correlation between changes in the methylation of the FKBP5 gene and psychotherapy induced changes in symptoms and functioning.
Established evidence base with MBT for treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and/or Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD). Demographic information of United Kingdom prison population highlights large proportion of offenders with PD. There is no agreed universal approach to treatment of PD within Scottish prisons with large variance across the prison estate. MBT pilots in HMP Edinburgh and HMP Cornton Vale have demonstrated positive findings in female offenders which could be replicated in male populations.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a common psychiatric disorder occurring in 2 to 6% of the population. 70% of patients with BPD do at least one Suicide Attempt (SA) in their lives. It makes BPD the most related to SA condition. Negative interpersonal events are among the main stressor inducing a SA. Patients with BPD are characterized by emotional dysregulation, impulsivity (repeated parasuicidal and suicidal behaviors), and instability in interpersonal relationships. The feeling of shame related to this psychiatric disorder could be one of the causes of the high SA rate. In this study, patients with BPD will be follow-up during 5 years. The main objective is to study the propensity to feel shame as a predictor of SA. This include: - Study of shame propensity as a predictive factor of suicidal behavior - Identify homogeneous subgroups of patients with BPD based on SA, and overall functioning. - Identify biological markers predicting SA - Identify predictive and protective treatments (pharmacological and psychotherapeutic) for SA
Self-stigma refers to the transformation process wherein a person's previously held social identity is progressively replaced by a devalued and stigmatized view of oneself termed "illness identity". Self-Stigma is a severe problem in Serious Mental Illness (SMI). Self-stigma prevalence is high (41.7% of the 1229 participants with SZ and 21.7% of the 1182 participants with mood disorders had moderate to high levels of IS in the GAMIAN-Europe study). Self-stigma was negatively associated with self-esteem, social function, wellbeing, quality of life or personal recovery and positively associated with psychiatric symptoms and depression. Several psychosocial interventions (mostly combinations of psychoeducation and cognitive behaviour therapy) have been designed to reduce self-stigma and its impact on clinical and functional outcomes, with preliminary effects on self-stigma, insight and self-efficacy. Narrative Enhancement and Cognitive Therapy (NECT) is a manualized structured 20-session group-based intervention . Conducted by two trained facilitators the sessions combine psychoeducation, cognitive restructuring and story-telling exercises to reduce self-stigma. Developed in USA, NECT was adapted in Israel and Sweden. NECT showed effectiveness in reducing self-stigma and in improving self-esteem and quality of life. Despite being effective on changing coping strategies, NECT effectiveness on social function is still unclear. The present study aims to validate NECT French adaptation and to evaluate its effectiveness on social function, self-stigma, psychiatric symptoms, self-esteem, wellbeing, quality of life and personal recovery in SMI participants (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder)