ReviewDialogues in clinical neuroscience2013
The relationship between borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder.
Review in Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.
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33 citing papers in PubMed.
- Low Caregiver-Child Positive Escalation in Childhood Predicts Late Adolescent BPD.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
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- Understanding mental health discourse on Reddit with transformers and explainability.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The mediating effect of trauma and loss spectrum on the relationship between autistic traits and eating disorder symptoms among patients with borderline personality disorder.CNS spectrums · 2025Article
- Neural Correlates of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Based on Electroencephalogram (EEG)-A Mechanistic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
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- Outcomes for pregnant women with Borderline Personality Disorder who attended a specialist antenatal service.Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists · 2024Article
- Identification of Predictors of Mood Disorder Misdiagnosis and Subsequent Help-Seeking Behavior in Individuals With Depressive Symptoms: Gradient-Boosted Tree Machine Learning Approach.JMIR mental health · 2024Article
- Social media addiction and borderline personality disorder: a survey study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Autistic traits as predictors of post-traumatic stress symptoms among patients with borderline personality disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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- Bipolar II Disorder: Understudied and Underdiagnosed.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2023Review
- Psychotic spectrum features in borderline and bipolar disorders within the scope of the DSM-5 section III personality traits: a case control study.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2023Article
- Borderline Personality Pathology in Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar I and II Disorder, and Its Relationship With Childhood Trauma.Psychiatry investigation · 2022Article
- Stress exposure and well-being: correlates of meeting criteria for bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, or both.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2022Article
- Machine Learning Prediction of Comorbid Substance Use Disorders among People with Bipolar Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Differences in Psychiatric Comorbidities and Gender Distribution among Three Clusters of Personality Disorders: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Structural MRI Brain Alterations in Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder.Cureus · 2021Review
- Self-report screening instruments differentiate bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
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Abstract
It is clinically important to recognize both bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder (BPD) in patients seeking treatment for depression, and it is important to distinguish between the two. Research considering whether BPD should be considered part of a bipolar spectrum reaches differing conclusions. We reviewed the most studied question on the relationship between BPD and bipolar disorder: their diagnostic concordance. Across studies, approximately 10% of patients with BPD had bipolar I disorder and another 10% had bipolar II disorder. Likewise, approximately 20% of bipolar II patients were diagnosed with BPD, though only 10% of bipolar I patients were diagnosed with BPD. While the comorbidity rates are substantial, each disorder is nontheless diagnosed in the absence of the other in the vast majority of cases (80% to 90%). In studies examining personality disorders broadly, other personality disorders were more commonly diagnosed in bipolar patients than was BPD. Likewise, the converse is also true: other axis I disorders such as major depression, substance abuse, and post-traumatic stress disorder are also more commonly diagnosed in patients with BPD than is bipolar disorder. These findings challenge the notion that BPD is part of the bipolar spectrum.
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