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The thin EEG line between depression and borderline personality disorder

In everyday clinical practice, there is an ongoing debate about the nature of the major depressive disorder (MDD) in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, the underlying research does not distinguish between those two entities. Both old and new theories suggest that depression experienced in BPD is shaped by a negative sense of the self and pronounced dependency on others. In addition, there are the facts that there is a lifetime prevalence of dysthymia ranging between 12% and 39% in BPD patients ; and that BPD patients also report a history of depression in up to 83% of cases. The notion that depression can be a distinct disorder but also a symptom in other psychopathologies was the underlying hypothesis in this study as we tried to delineate those two entities using electroencephalography (EEG) recordings and advanced machine learning methods.

Depression, Borderline personality disorder, EEG

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