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Example of Assessment and Intervention of the Borderline Personality Disorder

By Dr Heller On March 7, 2012 · 4 Comments

Q. I am a student from the Philippines. I just would like to ask a very important favor from you. I am presently taking the course “Assessment and Intervention of Individual Mental Disorders,” which happens to discuss borderline personality disorder. We were asked by our professor, who is a psychiatrist, if we can [...]

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Structural Brain Abnormalities In Those With BPD

By Dr Heller On March 7, 2012 · 1 Comment

Frontolimbic brain abnormalities in patients with borderline personality disorder: a volumetric magnetic resonance imaging study.

We found a significant reduction of hippocampal and amydgala volumes in borderline personality disorder.  There was a significant 24% reduction of the left orbitofrontal and a 26% reduction of the right anterior cingulate gyrus.

Biol Psychiatry 2003 [...]

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MedLine Research on the Borderline Personality Disorder

By Dr Heller On March 7, 2012 · 1 Comment

Medline is run by the National Medical Library, and summarized (via abstracts) what are felt to be the most important articles on most medical subjects for the medical profession.  These abstracts from Medline are about the BPD.

1980-1985
Am J Psychiatry 1982 Jun;139(6):741-6
“Aggression, suicide, and serotonin: relationships to CSF amine metabolites”
Low levels [...]

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Dr Heller Discusses PBD (Spanish)

By Dr Heller On March 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Traducido por la computadora en español

Se pensaba una vez que ” …Epilepsy era un problema psiquiátrico, hasta el estando debajo de neurológico se entendieron las anormalidades.  Investigadores han destapado médico y neurológico las anormalidades en las fronteras.  Muchos síntomas son probablemente debidos al funcionamiento defectuoso en el cerebro el sistema del limbic.  En mi [...]

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DSM – (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual)

By Dr Heller On March 7, 2012 · 1 Comment

Official DSM-IV Criteria for Borderline Personality DisorderA pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

1) frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment

2) a pattern of unstable & [...]

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Book Review by Patty Johnson M.S.W.

By Dr Heller On December 22, 2011 · 1 Comment

Dr. Leland M. Heller’s new book “Biological Unhappiness” fills a large void in the medical field, not only in diagnosing these biological causes of unhappiness, but in their treatment as well.

In the past these disorders were considered “psychologically” based with the only hope of treatment to be that of psychotherapy. As a therapist, that [...]

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