Borderline personality traits and ADHD symptoms were assessed in a sample of 7233 twins and siblings from the Netherlands. The phenotypic correlation between ADHD and BPD symptoms was high (r = 0.59) and was the same for both genders. According to the authors, 49% of the high phenotypic...
Impulsivity consists of different components including personality traits (eg, tendency to act on the spur of the moment), deficits in executive functions (eg, attention, interference inhibition, information sampling, decision mak- ing, delay of gratification), and behavioral inhibition (Sebastian et ...
Impulsive traits, a major component of BPD, are associated with deficits in central serotonergic functioning. More specifically, increased 5-HT2A receptors and decreased 5-HT2C receptors are related with impulsivity [21]. Impulsivity is a core feature of BPD and it is related with reward and ...
Both approaches postulate interpersonal dysfunction and self-related dysfunction as the core criteria for PD and detail maladaptive personality traits for further specification of the diagnosis. ICD-11 allows for the optional specification of five maladaptive trait qualifiers, whereas the AMPD requires that...