ReviewAnnals of general psychiatry2023
The role of emotional instability in borderline personality disorder: a systematic review.
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- Is peer support beneficial for individuals with borderline personality disorder? Exploring its potential and challenges - a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation on emotional instability and impulsivity in atypical depression and bipolar II disorder.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- A qualitative description of the daily living functioning of people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder from consumer, carer and clinician perspectives.Australian occupational therapy journal · 2026Review
- Task-Based fMRI Reveals a Diagnosis-Dependent Amygdala Lateralization in Major Depressive Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Comorbidities.Neuroscience bulletin · 2026Article
- "Prideful Apathy": A Phenomenological-Psychopathological Study of Emotion Engagement and Regulation Tasks.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Moderating effect of temperaments between borderline personality traits and mood instability among a sample of Lebanese adults.PloS one · 2026Article
- An explainable multimodal artificial intelligence model for classifying suicide attempters with borderline personality disorder: a pilot study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- "I Don't Think Anyone's Ever Asked Me About the Two Before": Making Sense of Co-occurring Autism and BPD in Inpatient Mental Health Settings.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Interaction between emotion lability, emotion regulation and structural brain abnormalities in patients with anorexia nervosa and borderline personality disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
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- AI-assisted neurocognitive assessment protocol for older adults with psychiatric disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Benchmarks for dialectical behavioural therapy intervention in adults and adolescents with borderline personality symptoms.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
- Psychotic-Like Reasoning Styles in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder? An Experimental Investigation of the Jumping to Conclusions Bias.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThe emotional regulation process plays a pivotal role in daily-life functioning, modulating goal-directed and adaptive behavior. Conversely, altering this cognitive function can disrupt self-regulation and bring emotional dysregulation. Emotional instability could represent a core characteristic of BPD, also modulating the BPD symptom's onset. This systematic review aims to summarize the existing literature reporting the role of emotional instability in BPD to better define the role of the impairment of the emotional processes in the onset of the cognitive and behavioral symptoms of this complex mental disorder.
methodsMEDLINE, Scopus and Web of Science were independently searched for relevant studies. Eligible studies had to be identifiable through database searching, published and accessible. This systematic review was conducted according to PRISMA guidelines. The search period was from 2012 to 14 September 2022.
resultsA pool of 120 studies was identified, out of which 11 met the selection criteria and were included. Overall, the studies confirm a relationship between emotional instability and borderline personality disorder.
conclusionsThe evidences retrieved seem to point out the role of the emotional impairment not only in worsening of the disorder, but could also be one of the risk factors for its onset.
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