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Published in: Current Psychiatry Reports 1/2012

01-02-2012 | PERSONALITY DISORDERS (H KOENIGSBERG, SECTION EDITOR)

Developmental Pathways to Borderline Personality Disorder

Authors: Andrew M. Chanen, Michael Kaess

Published in: Current Psychiatry Reports | Issue 1/2012

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Abstract

This paper reviews recent studies of biological and environmental risk and protective factors and patterns of continuity leading to borderline personality disorder (BPD). It focuses on prospective studies of children and adolescents and studies of young people with borderline pathology, reporting findings from genetics, neurobiology, experimental psychopathology, environmental risk, and precursor signs and symptoms. Studies of individuals earlier in the course of BPD demonstrate relatively consistent environmental risk factors, but neurobiological and experimental psychopathology findings are still inconsistent. Also, temperamental and mental state abnormalities that resemble aspects of the BPD phenotype emerge in childhood and adolescence and presage the BPD syndrome in adolescence or adulthood. Further work is required to better understand the roles that all these factors play in the developmental pathways to BPD and to increase their specificity for BPD in order to facilitate prevention and early intervention.
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Metadata
Title
Developmental Pathways to Borderline Personality Disorder
Authors
Andrew M. Chanen
Michael Kaess
Publication date
01-02-2012
Publisher
Current Science Inc.
Published in
Current Psychiatry Reports / Issue 1/2012
Print ISSN: 1523-3812
Electronic ISSN: 1535-1645
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-011-0242-y

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