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ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2021

The Emerging Circadian Phenotype of Borderline Personality Disorder: Mechanisms, Opportunities and Future Directions.

Niall M McGowan, Kate E A Saunders

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Review in Current psychiatry reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Sleep disturbance and maladaptive sleep-related cognitions in borderline personality disorder in the longitudinal McLean Study of Adult Development.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Niall M McGowanDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK. niall.mcgowan@psych.ox.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-8183-8558
Kate E A SaundersDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3448-9927
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewWe review the recent evidence suggesting that circadian rhythm disturbance is a common unaddressed feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD); amelioration of which may confer substantial clinical benefit. We assess chronobiological BPD studies from a mechanistic and translational perspective and highlight opportunities for the future development of this hypothesis. RECENT

findingsThe emerging circadian phenotype of BPD is characterised by a preponderance of comorbid circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders, phase delayed and misaligned rest-activity patterns and attenuated amplitudes of usually well-characterised circadian rhythms. Such disturbances may exacerbate symptom severity, and specific maladaptive personality dimensions may produce a liability towards extremes in chronotype. Pilot studies suggest intervention may be beneficial, but development is limited. Endogenous and exogenous circadian rhythm disturbances appear to be common in BPD. The interface between psychiatry and chronobiology has led previously to novel efficacious strategies for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. We believe that better characterisation of the circadian phenotype in BPD will lead to a directed biological target for treatment in a condition where there is a regrettable paucity of accessible therapies.

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Borderline Personality DisorderSleep Disorders, Circadian RhythmCircadian RhythmHumansPhenotypeSleepActigraphyChronotypeCircadianMelatoninPersonality disorder

Identifiers

PMID33835306
PMCPMC8035096
OpenAlexW3143902390

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