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[Symptom-focussed drug therapy in borderline personality disorder]C Schmahl
Abteilung für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie mit Poliklinik, Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychosomatik, Freiburg
Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr 69:310-21. 2001..Intermittent psychotic symptoms are a target for atypical neuroleptics. Benzodiazepines are no longer viewed to be useful in the treatment of BPD...
Neurobiological correlates of borderline personality disorderChristian G Schmahl
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg Medical School, Hauptstrasse 5, D 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Psychopharmacol Bull 36:69-87. 2002..Genetic and environmental factors lead to brain alterations that are the basis for specific presentations of the disorder, such as self-injurious and impulsive aggressive behavior...
Magnetic resonance imaging of hippocampal and amygdala volume in women with childhood abuse and borderline personality disorderChristian G Schmahl
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg Medical School, Hauptstrasse 5, D 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Psychiatry Res 122:193-8. 2003..9% smaller mean amygdala volume and a 13.1% smaller hippocampal volume, compared to controls. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that alterations in the hippocampus and amygdala are associated with BPD...
A voxel-based morphometric MRI study in female patients with borderline personality disorderN Rusch
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Neuroimage 20:385-92. 2003..Our findings support the hypothesis that temporolimbic abnormalities play a role in the pathophysiology of BPD. Prefrontal structural alterations in BPD were not observed in this study...
Naloxone in the treatment of acute dissociative states in female patients with borderline personality disorderA Philipsen
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Germany
Pharmacopsychiatry 37:196-9. 2004..Further studies will investigate whether patients benefit from naloxone in a higher dose or whether subgroups of patients with BPD profit from naloxone in acute dissociative states...
Positron emission tomography in female patients with borderline personality disorderF D Juengling
Department of Nuclear Medicine, PET Group, University of Freiburg Medical School, Hugstetterstr. 55, D-79106, Freiburg, Germany
J Psychiatr Res 37:109-15. 2003..Dysfunction in this network of brain regions, which has been implicated in the regulation of emotion, may underlie symptoms of BPD...
Higher cortisol levels following exposure to traumatic reminders in abuse-related PTSDBernet M Elzinga
Section of Clinical and Health Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Neuropsychopharmacology 28:1656-65. 2003..There was no association between memory performance and cortisol levels. These results are consistent with higher cortisol levels following exposure to traumatic stressors in PTSD...
A positron emission tomography study of memories of childhood abuse in borderline personality disorderChristian G Schmahl
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 55:759-65. 2004..These brain areas might mediate trauma-related symptoms, such as dissociation or affective instability, in patients with BPD...
Psychophysiological reactivity to traumatic and abandonment scripts in borderline personality and posttraumatic stress disorders: a preliminary reportChristian G Schmahl
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, J 5, D 68159 Mannheim, Germany
Psychiatry Res 126:33-42. 2004..A divergence in pathophysiology in these two disorders is suggested that may be linked to childhood trauma. However, this interpretation must be tested in a larger population...
Neural correlates of memories of abandonment in women with and without borderline personality disorderChristian G Schmahl
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg Medical School, Freiburg, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 54:142-51. 2003..These brain areas may mediate symptoms of BPD...
