1. The Relationship Between Cognitive Abilities and Trait Clinical Features in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder
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Heifa Ounalli, Maria Giulia Nanni, Martino Belvederi Murri, Luigi Zerbinati, Federica Folesani, Bruno Biancosino, Rosangela Caruso, Agnese Rossetto, Luigi Grassi, and Silvia Costa
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Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Trail Making Test ,Neuropsychological Tests ,Impulsivity ,Personality Disorders ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cognition ,0302 clinical medicine ,Wisconsin Card Sorting Test ,Borderline Personality Disorder ,medicine ,Humans ,Personality ,Borderline personality disorder ,media_common ,Executive functions ,medicine.disease ,030227 psychiatry ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Clinical Psychology ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Very few studies have focused on the relationship between cognitive functions and clinical features in borderline personality disorder (BPD). Subjects with BPD and healthy controls were administered the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status, Trail Making Test A and B, and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI-53) was used to assess the severity of current symptoms. Attachment style was assessed with the Experiences in Close Relationship Questionnaire, identity integration with the Personality Structure Questionnaire, and other domains of personality dysfunction with the RUDE Scale for Personality Dysfunction. Patients with BPD performed significantly worse than healthy controls in all cognitive domains. Cognitive functions, particularly delayed memory and visuospatial abilities, displayed meaningful associations with trait-like clinical features, above the effect of global cognition and state psychopathology. These findings highlight the need to evaluate effects of cognitive rehabilitation on trait features among individuals with BPD.
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- 2021