ReviewNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2019
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder And Borderline Personality Disorder In Adults: A Review Of Their Links And Risks.
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- Prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder/hyperkinetic disorder of pediatric and adult populations in clinical settings: a systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy in medicated adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in multiple dimensions: a randomised controlled trial.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2022Trial
- Emotion dysregulation is heightened in autistic females: A comparison with autistic males and borderline personality disorder.Women's health (London, England)Trial
- The Role of Mothers' Psychiatric Symptoms, Practices of Emotion Socialization and Emotion Regulation among Children Diagnosed with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Childhood ADHD and Its Adult Mimics: When First-Time ADHD Diagnoses in Adulthood May Reflect Other Conditions-A Narrative Review.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Machine learning reveals a multimodal, transdiagnostic signature of emotion dysregulation vulnerability across patients, offspring, and controls.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Treatment trajectories of patients with borderline personality disorder prescribed pharmacotherapy: real-world insights from a retrospective observational study.BMC psychiatry · 2026Observational
- Prevalence and Clinical Impact of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Patients With Severe Borderline Personality Disorder.Psychiatric research and clinical practice · 2026Article
- Adverse childhood experiences in adults completing ADHD and autism diagnostic assessment: associations with diagnostic outcome and psychiatric symptom burden.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Overlaps and differences in the core symptoms of patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and patients with borderline personality disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Methylphenidate in Borderline Personality Disorder: Assessing Its Therapeutic Potential and Limitations.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Borderline personality: revisiting its classification as a neurodevelopmental disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Dynamics of affect modulation in neurodevelopmental disorders (DynAMoND) - study design of a prospective cohort study.International journal of bipolar disorders · 2024Article
- Borderline Personality as a Factor in Late, Missed, and Mis-Diagnosis in Autistic Girls and Women: A Conceptual Analysis.Autism in adulthood · 2024Article
- Impulsivity in ADHD and Borderline Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review of Gray and White Matter Variations.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Psychological Factors Associated with Functional Tic-like Behaviours during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Suicide: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Inflammation and emotion regulation: a narrative review of evidence and mechanisms in emotion dysregulation disorders.Neuronal signaling · 2023Review
- Can you trust this source? Advice taking in borderline personality disorder.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Alignment of Borderline Personality Disorder and Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder With Complex Developmental Symptomatology.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2023Article
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Abstract
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) are particularly common disorders, that are highly comorbid in adult populations. The symptomatic overlap between adult ADHD and BPD includes impulsivity, emotional dysregulation and interpersonal impairment, which makes the differential diagnosis difficult. Our review aims at focusing on recent data on the comorbid ADHD+BPD form, as well as the risk factors involved in the emergence of the two disorders. While adult ADHD and BPD share some genetic and temperamental risk factors, adult ADHD is characterized by more severe trait-impulsivity compared to non-comorbid BPD; BPD patients display more severe trait-emotion regulation symptoms compared to non-comorbid ADHD. Patients with the comorbid ADHD+BPD form have severe symptoms in both dimensions. Early-life exposure to adverse events is a shared risk factor for the development of ADHD and BPD, but type and timing of adversity seem to play a differential role in the development of BPD and ADHD symptoms. Age of onset used to be a discriminative diagnostic criterion between ADHD, an early-onset neurodevelopmental disorder, and BPD, a late-onset psychological disorder. However, this distinction has been recently called into question, increasing the need for more research aiming at delineating the disorders from a developmental and clinical standpoint. Clinicians should carefully consider the comorbidity, and consider ADHD and BPD dimensionally, in order to provide more effective patient management. This might improve early preventive interventions, and treatment for comorbid conditions in adulthood.
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