http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Researchers discovered that healthy people and those with borderline personality disorder displayed different patterns of behavior while playing an online strategy game, so much so that when healthy players played people with borderline personality disorder, they gave up on trying to predict what their partners would do next. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-hallmarks-psychiatric-illness-reveal-remotely.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:56:51 EST news284748995 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers in Australia have uncovered what they describe as differences in brain behavior for people diagnosed with either bipolar disorder (BP) or borderline personality disorder (BPD). As they describe in their paper published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, brain scans of people diagnosed with one or the other of the disorders show differences in the ways emotions are processed, leading perhaps to a true biological marker for the two ailments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-effort-reveals-differences-brain-mental.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:38:14 EST news284272640 Originally, the label "borderline personality disorder" was applied to patients who were thought to represent a middle ground between patients with neurotic and psychotic disorders. Increasingly, though, this area of research has focused on the heightened emotional reactivity observed in patients carrying this diagnosis, as well as the high rates with which they also meet diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder and mood disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-borderline-personality-disorder-storm-emotion.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:02:25 EST news277462886 Data, data everywhere. In genomics research, there is a data deluge, so innovative ways to analyze all that information will play a critical role in future breakthroughs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-psychology-professor-clues-psychiatric-disorders.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:29:22 EST news274523356 Unemployment poses a significant burden on the public no matter what the cause. But for those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric illness, chronic unemployment is often coupled with significant health care costs. A Rhode Island Hospital study compared unemployment rates among those with various psychiatric disorders, and found that borderline personality disorder is associated with as much unemployment as bipolar disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-borderline-personality-bipolar-disorders-similar.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:51:02 EST news274445289 (Medical Xpress) -- Personality disorders could be more effectively diagnosed by identifying and targeting the disrupted neurobiological systems where the disorders originate, report Cornell researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-approach-effectively-personality-disorders.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:34:14 EST news248981604