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1: Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2000 Mar;23(1):169-92, ix.Links

Psychopharmacology of borderline personality disorder.

Soloff PH.

Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Pharmacotherapy for patients with borderline personality disorder is directed against the psychobiology of cognitive-perceptual, affective, and impulsive-behavioral symptoms. A symptom-specific method using current empiric evidence for drug efficacy in each symptom domain is proposed. Drugs in each medication class have some potential utility against specific symptoms in patients with borderline personality disorder.

PMID: 10729938 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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