ReviewBrain sciences2023
Comorbidity and Overlaps between Autism Spectrum and Borderline Personality Disorder: State of the Art.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Adverse outcomes for autistic people: an umbrella review of mental health, physical health, social and lifestyle domains.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Exploring the Interplay Between Emotions and Medical Decision-Making: Insights from an Empirical Patient-Centred Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- 'The true me': Unravelling the dual narrative of borderline personality disorder and autistic spectrum disorder.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- Borderline personality disorder and eating disorders are characterized by specific patterns of autistic traits, post-traumatic and catatonic symptoms.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Article
- PTSD Symptoms Are Associated with a Greater Use of Social Camouflaging Strategies in an Eating Disorder Sample with Elevated Autistic Traits.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Expanding Understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Girls and Women: A New Paradigm.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders: comorbidities as clues to pathogenesis.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2026Review
- The Role of Social Adversity in the Association Between Autistic Traits and Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms.Personality and mental health · 2026Article
- A Qualitative Study on the Experiences of Adult Females with Late Diagnosis of ASD and ADHD in the UK.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Toward a hybrid assessment framework for adolescent borderline personality disorder: a mini review of personality functioning, digital biomarkers, and AI-supported assessment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Psychiatric Emergency Visits of Autistic Adults With or Without Documented Borderline Personality Disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Gender differences in autism prevalence: origins of bias and its current scientific relevance.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- A thematic analysis of the views of neurodivergent women with a personality disorder diagnosis on clinical pathways within mental health services.Discover mental health · 2025Article
- 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
- Relationships Among Bullying Experiences, Mood Symptoms and Suicidality in Subjects with and Without Autism Spectrum Conditions.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Orthorexic Tendencies Are Associated with Autistic Traits in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Using Case-Based Teaching: Does Our Dysregulated Hospitalized Patient Have Borderline Personality or Autism Spectrum Disorder?Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2025Article
- Autistic Traits Are Associated with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Elevated Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Autistic Youth and Adults: A Multinational Study.Autism in adulthood · 2025Article
- Available Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder: From Old Strategies to New Options.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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Abstract
Despite the relationship between Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and personality disorders (PD) still being scarcely understood, recent investigations increased awareness about significant overlaps between some PD and autism spectrum conditions. In this framework, several studies suggested the presence of similarities between BPD and ASD symptoms and traits, based on the recent literature that increasingly reported increased comorbidity rates and significant symptomatologic overlaps between the two conditions. The aim of this review is to describe the available studies about the prevalence of the association between different forms of autism spectrum (full-fledged clinical conditions as well as subthreshold autistic traits) and BPD. Despite some controversial results and lack of homogeneity in the methods used for the diagnostic assessment, the reviewed literature highlighted how subjects with BPD reported higher scores on tests evaluating the presence of AT compared to a non-clinical population and hypothesized the presence of unrecognized ASD in some BPD patients or vice versa, while also describing a shared vulnerability towards traumatic events, and a greater risk of suicidality in BPD subjects with high autistic traits. However, the specific measure and nature of this association remain to be explored in more depth.
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