Soft Sign Neurological Abnormalities in Borderline Personality Disorder and Normal Control Subjects
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 175 (3) , 177-180
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-198703000-00009
Abstract
Patients with borderline personality disorder were found to have a significantly greater number of soft sign neurological abnormalities when compared with a group of normal control subjects. Sensitivity analysis revealed that the presence of two or more soft signs differentiated the two groups statistically. The authors speculate that nonfocal soft sign neurological abnormalities may reflect underlying central nervous system dysfunction, which may in turn be associated with the development of borderline personality disorders.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Neurological Soft SignsArchives of General Psychiatry, 1985
- Observations on the Handedness Preferences of Patients with Personality DisordersThe British Journal of Psychiatry, 1983