Impulsivity in patients with borderline personality disorder: a comprehensive profile compared with healthy people and patients with ADHD.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with BPD without ADHD comorbidity had increased self-reported impulsivity and impulsive choice, but intact impulsive action and cognitive functioning. Controlling for ADHD comorbidity in BPD samples is necessary. Negative urgency is the most diagnostically specific impulsivity dimension in BPD.
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Source: Psychological Medicine - August 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Linhartová P, Látalová A, Barteček R, Širůček J, Theiner P, Ejova A, Hlavatá P, Kóša B, Jeřábková B, Bareš M, Kašpárek T Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research