Active clinical trials for "Borderline Personality Disorder"

Our study aims at contributing to a valid appraisal of the magnitude of naltrexone efficacy as an antidissociative agent by using a double-blind randomized controlled trial.

Primary purpose : to assess the effect on neuropsychological tasks related to planning of 10 daily sessions of right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with High-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on borderline personality disorder (BPD) patients. Hypothesis : BPD patients receiving 10 sessions of rTMS will have greater improvement in the average number of move to achieve tasks of the Tower of London, than those receiving sham rTMS.

The goals of this study are to determine: the safety of olanzapine and any side effects that might be associated with it, how olanzapine compares to placebo, whether olanzapine can help patients with symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and how much olanzapine should be given to patients.

The purpose of the study is to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of a modified form of psychodynamic psychotherapy for persons suffering from co-occurring borderline personality disorder and an alcohol use disorder.

Purpose: The aim of the current study was to evaluate the efficacy of online Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (e-DBT) in the treatment of individuals with symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Method: Study participants diagnosed with BPD were offered treatment options of either online or in-person format of a DBT skills-building program. During each session, participants were provided with both the material and feedback regarding their previous week's homework. e-DBT protocol and content was designed to mirror in-person content. Participants were assessed by using a Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS).

There are currently no pharmacological treatments approved to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD). This trial will be conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of brexpiprazole for the treatment of participants diagnosed with BPD to provide a pharmacological treatment for BPD.

The primary aim is to investigate the effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Group Therapy (ERGT) for women who self-harm in ordinary psychiatric outpatient health care.

The present research aims at examining the effectiveness of a specific set of therapist relational interventions and attitudes, called the Motive-Oriented Therapeutic Relationship (MOTR), based on Plan Analysis (Caspar, 2007) in the early-phase treatment of patients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The investigators intend to include N = 80 outpatients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, consulting at the Outpatient Personality Disorder Program of the Karl Jaspers Clinical Unit, in collaboration with the Institute of Psychotherapy, at the Department of Psychiatry-CHUV, University of Lausanne and in collaboration with the University of Berne, Switzerland. Patients are assigned by chance to two treatment conditions 1) Control condition (General Psychiatric Management; Gunderson & Links, 2008) and 2) MOTR-condition. The investigators hypothesize better results in the MOTR-condition, as compared to the control condition in terms of symptom reduction pre-post. The conduct of the study represents a significant contribution to the understanding and enhancement of relationship aspects in the treatment of patients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder which may be of potential benefit for these patients.

Recent research suggests that BPD is a common, serious but treatable disorder with a better than previously recognized prognosis. Despite these findings, many patients with BPD are not given the borderline diagnosis by the mental health professionals treating them. It is also true that many newly diagnosed borderline patients are not provided with up-to-date information on the disorder even though psychoeducation has been found to be a useful form of treatment for other serious psychiatric illnesses. The investigators have conducted a preliminary randomized trial of psychoeducation for BPD that found that those provided with immediate psychoeducation had a significantly greater reduction in two core symptoms of BPD--general impulsivity and stormy relationships--than those with delayed psychoeducation. However, both instruction and assessment of change over time were conducted in person by paraprofessionals. The importance of the current study is that it will allow the investigators to develop and test the efficacy of an internet-based program of psychoeducation for BPD that will be both cost efficient and easy to disseminate widely, particularly to underserved populations.

Suicide is a major public health crisis for which effective new interventions are needed. An innovative new brain stimulation technique called magnetic seizure therapy (MST) shows promise for treating suicidal thinking in chronically depressed individuals. Using a high-risk cohort of suicidal patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and treatment resistant major depressive disorder (MDD), this study will evaluate the effectiveness of MST for reducing suicidality and depressive symptoms in an open-label clinical trial of up to 15 treatment sessions. Based on research showing that functioning of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) may be disrupted in BPD and place individuals at risk for suicide, the DLPFC will be targeted for stimulation. Moderate-to-highly suicidal patients with BPD beginning dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) will be recruited using a case-control design, comparing individuals receiving MST and DBT with matched patient control group receiving DBT alone.