Active clinical trials for "Personality Disorders"

Pregnant women consecutively referred to the Perinatal Psychiatric Outpatient Department, those in charge of the Psychiatric Outpatient Department and pregnant healthy controls from the general population will be recruited on a voluntary basis. Mothers will be tested with the EPDS, BAI, BDI, WHOQOL, SCID II and CTQ; their children will be tested with the CBCL between 18 months and 5 years.

128 patients between 18 and 76 years who attended the Operative Dentistry Clinic at Dental School, Universidad de Chile, were included in the study. 58 patients were bleaching (experimental group) and 70 patients don't accepted the bleaching procedure (control group) were included in this study and signed a consent form.Experimental group Patients who agreed to be bleaching were treated with 10% carbamide peroxide (CP) gel (Whiteness Perfect, FGM) to each subject With verbal instructions for 3 weeks with daily applications of 1 hour according to manufacturers indications , before and after this procedure was applied again the NEO-FFI personality test form, had 30 minutes to answer it.Control group:Patients who refused to be bleached were administered the personality test NEO-FFI, had 30 minutes to answer it.

Main goal is to collect and analyze possible differences between ovo / lacto-vegetarians and vegans with respect to their personality profiles, values and empathy through validated questionnaires. Main hypothesis: vegans and ovo / lacto-vegetarians differ in their personality, empathy and values

This study aims to use resting-state and task based functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) as a tool to evaluate trait characteristics of impulsivity in subjects with borderline personality disorder.

The study is based on a hypothesis that there is interaction between the activity in the immune system and in the mind. To study this, the investigators register different measures for activity in the immune system on patients unselectedly admitted to an acute psychiatric ward. The psychiatric statuses and diagnoses of these patients are carefully defined as well.

There is clear evidence that aggressive behavior and disruptive behavior disorders (DBD) in middle childhood are associated with an increased risk for substance abuse in adolescence. However, the exact underlying mechanism of this increased risk is unknown. It is likely that a biopsychological vulnerability in some aggressive children and children with DBD makes them liable to substance use and abuse. The investigators hypothesize that deficient decision making is such a biopsychological factor. In this study the investigators aim to test the latter hypothesis by investigating the decision making ability in a group of adolescents with DBD with and without substance use disorders. Decision-making is assessed with the IOWA Gambling Task (GT). This task mimics real-life situations in the way it factors uncertainty, reward and punishment. The GT is specifically designed to assess impaired decision-making in individuals who are unable to learn from their mistakes and make decisions that repeatedly lead to negative consequences. This characteristic may be common to individuals with externalizing disorders such as DBD, psychopathy, and substance use disorders.

A conduct disorder is characterized by repetitive and persistent patterns of behavior where the basic rights of others and rules are violated. This study investigates characteristics of children and their surroundings (environments) that place them at risk for the development of disruptive behavior disorders and associated disorders of anxiety and mood. Children ages 4 - 5 with moderate (subclinical) and severe (clinical) rates of misconduct during the preschool period are compared to low risk children. Children and their families were recruited from 1989-1991 and are being studied at five specific times: Preschool (4 - 5 years) Early childhood (6 - 7 years) Middle childhood (9 - 10 years) Early adolescence (13 - 14 years) Mid-adolescence (15 - 16 years) Researchers will look closely at biological, intellectual, emotional, and behavioral factors that are thought to protect against and/or increase the risk of developing a conduct problem. These factors have been studied in older children and are shown to be associated with disruptive behavior disorders. The goals of this research study are; Create a database showing the characteristics of the development of disruptive behavior problems. Identify the key risk and protective factors that contribute to the stability or change in behavior problems over time. Identify the ways that children interact socially and relate them to the possibility of developing a problem of behavior. Identify how experiences and the emotions associated with experiences may play a role in the development of related psychiatric conditions, like depression and anxiety. Establish measures of the different components of negative emotions associated with disruptive/antisocial, anxiety, and mood disorders.

Patients who self-harm are a heterogeneous population. Outpatient treatments structured for borderline personality disorder are often recommended and hospitalization kept to a minimum. However, few studies have focused on the most severe, complex conditions with extreme suicide risk. A recent national investigation from Norway (2017) demonstrated a far larger cohort of extensively hospitalized inpatients with extreme self-harming behaviors than was expected (N=427) - identified in all health regions. Reported challenges were high-risk situations, severe medical sequelae, difficult collaborations across services, and uncertainty about psychiatric diagnoses. Severe, often bizarre, self-harm is thus a major challenge for both patients and health services. In hospitals, safety measures can involve restrictions and involuntary regimes. As research on this target population is sparse, the current project seeks further understanding of complex conditions - psychopathology, treatment experiences and service collaboration. The project is a national, multi-center cooperation including patients in psychiatric hospitals in all health regions. It is cross sectional. Data is based on diagnostic interviews, patients' self-reported symptoms and both patients and service providers treatment experiences. The inclusion period for inpatients (N=300) and a comparison sample of outpatients (N=300) is one year. The target group is inpatients with extreme hospitalization and severe self-mutilation. A comparison group is patients with personality pathology attending outpatient treatments. Recruitment is across health regions. Aim 1: Investigate psychopathology of patients in the target population and compare to a clinical sample admitted to outpatient treatment Aim 2: Investigate personality functioning in the target population and compare to a clinical sample admitted to outpatient treatment Aim 3: a) Investigate health service use in the target population and compare to a clinical sample admitted to outpatient treatment. b) Investigate treatment experiences and health service collaborations in the target population. The project will provide rational for future preventive treatment interventions

This study aims to better understand the behavioral, neurobiological and hormonal underpinnings of stress and reward reactivity of adolescents suffering from borderline personality disorder compared to healthy adolescents by a multimodal approach based on clinical assessments, structural and functional mri and experimental acute stress exposure.

This is a randomised trial comparing cognitive therapy and supportive therapy administered along one year in borderline personality disorder. The follow-up is one year after treatments end. The therapists were the same in the two groups. Patients received one session a week during six months and one session every two weeks during the next six months