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Published on: March 8, 2018
Planning in borderline personality disorder: evidence for distinct subpopulations
M Leonor Bustamante1, Juana Villarroel, Valeria Francesetti
1Personality Disorders Unit, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Hospital of the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. mbustamante@med.uchile.cl
Objective:
Borderline personality disorder is a severe mental disorder, whereas previous studies suggest executive functions may be impaired. The aim of this study was to evaluate executive planning in a sample of 85 individuals.
Methods:
Planning was assessed by means of the Tower of London (Drexel University version) task. Latent class cluster analysis models were adjusted to the data.
Results:
We identified two different subpopulations of borderline personality disorder patients, one of them with significantly reduced performance. CONCLUSION;. Neuropsychological mechanisms may be involved in borderline personality disorder, at least in a subgroup of patients.
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