Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica
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Acta Psychiatr Scand · Nov 2013
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyThe bipolar-borderline personality disorders connection in major depressive patients.
The study focuses on the controversial relationship between borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar disorder (BD), defined according to different criteria set, in a world-wide sample of patients with a current major depressive episode (MDE). ⋯ In our sample, selected on the basis of the presence of a mood disorder, the BD-BPD connection is confirmed by the high prevalence of bipolarity in depressive patients with BPD and by the significant association with familial and clinical features classically considered as external validators of bipolarity.